Situating Intersectionality

Wendy G. Smooth, Assistant Professor of Women's Studies, Ohio State University, USA Erica Townsend-Bell, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Iowa, USA Penny Miles, Graduate student, University of Cardiff, UK Anil Al-Rebholz, Postdoctoral researcher, Goethe University, Germany Surya Monro, Senior Research Fellow, University of Hudderfield, UKDiane Richardson, Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, Newcastle University, UKRyan Combs, Research Associate, University of Manchester, UK

• 1. Intersectionality from Theoretical Framework to Policy Intervention; Wendy G. Smooth 2. Intersectional Advances? Inclusionary and Intersectional State Action in Uruguay; Erica E. Townsend-Bell 3. ID Cards as Access: Negotiating Transgender (and Intersex) Bodies into the Chilean Legal System; Penny Miles 4. International Adoption as Humanitarian Aid: The Discursive and Material Production of the Social Orphan in Haitian Disaster Relief; Kate Livingston 5. Gendered Subjectivity and Intersectional Political Agency in Transnational Space: The Case of Turkish and Kurdish Women's NGO Activists; Anil Al-Rebholz 6. Gender Variance: The Intersection of Understandings Held in the Medical & Social Sciences; Ryan Combs 7. Intersectional Analysis at the Medio-Legal Borderland: HIV Testing Innovations and the Criminalization of HIV Non-Disclosure; Daniel Grace 8. Crossroads or Categories? Intersectionality Theory and the Case of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Equalities Initiatives in UK Local Government; Surya Monro and Diane Richardson

"This wide-ranging and cutting-edge collection links theoretical and 'real world' concerns to provide an exciting contribution to the analysis of power and policy that illuminates the complexities involved. Both accessible and sophisticated, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand and challenge current patterns of privilege and marginalisation." Valerie Bryson, Professor Emerita, University of Huddersfield, UK 'The authors in this exciting collection deftly address an impressive array of issues including advocacy groups and NGOs, gender identity and identification cards, disaster relief, and HIV testing across a range of geographic settings and political contexts. In so doing, their research highlights the importance of bringing an intersectional lens to long-standing questions about political institutions, political identities, and public policy.' Dara Z. Strolovitch, Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and Affiliated Faculty, Department of Politics, Princeton University, USA and the author of Affirmative Advocacy: Race, Class, and Gender in Interest Group Politics