Intersectional Advocacy

Margaret Perez Brower is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. Her work focuses on the politics of race, ethnicity, and gender and how these politics shape US institutions, advocacy, policymaking, and social movements.

• Introduction: movements to end gender-based violence and rethinking feminist advocacy; 1. Theory of intersectional advocacy; 2. Setting the policy boundaries of the Vawa; 3. Reconfiguring the Vawa; 4. Policy linkages & organizational strategy; 5. Intersectional advocates and organizations; 6. Mobilization and intersectional advocacy; Conclusion: the challenges and possibilities ahead; References; Research Appendix: Vawa textual analysis; Research Appendix: Qualitative case studies; Research Appendix: Experimental methods.

'Intersectional Advocacy is a rare scholarly jewel forged from the combined power of rigorous, multi-method empirical analyses and careful, theoretically grounded thinking. Brower crafts a narrative that is at once rooted in deep knowledge of policy processes and centered on organizations struggling to change policy and build a more just world. Intersectional Advocacy offers crucial insights for scholars and practitioners seeking to understand and transform the structure, constraints, and possibilities of policymaking in the context of multiple, enduring, interlocking systems of oppression.' Jamila Michener, Cornell University