Title: Gender: An Intersectionality Perspective | SpringerLink
Headings: Gender: An Intersectionality Perspective
Gender: An Intersectionality Perspective
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Introduction
Intersectionality of Social Identities: A Brief History
Intersectionality as a Perspective on Research
Intersectionality: From Fact of Identity to Theory
Intersectionality as a Methodological Challenge
It’s Not Psychology
Not Enough Information
A Perspective in Search of a Method
An Intersectionality Perspective on Gender: Best Practices in Behavioral Research
Why Intersectionality Is an Urgent Issue
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Content: For example, in the contemporary U.S., racial categories are construed as containing two genders. This suggests that gender categories are always and everywhere similarly understood and employed, thus “natural” and without other possibilities (e.g., multiple genders; “ temporary” gender categories). To this definition we might add the acknowledgment that these meanings are historically contingent. See, for example, Shields and Bhatia ( in press ). It is also widely agreed that intersections create both oppression and opportunity (Baca Zinn and Thornton Dill 1996 ). In other words, being on the advantaged side offers more than avoidance of disadvantage or oppression by actually opening up access to rewards, status, and opportunities unavailable to other intersections. Furthermore, an intersectional position may be disadvantaged relative to one group, but advantaged relative to another. The White lesbian may be disadvantaged because of divergence from the heterosexual norm and standard, but relative to other lesbians she enjoys racial privilege. Last and not least, identities instantiate social stratification.