Margaret Perez Brower

Intersectional Advocacy

Redrawing Policy Boundaries Around Gender, Race, and Class

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Produktbeschreibung

"Illustrates the practice of 'intersectional advocacy' by showing how organizations addressing genderbased violence are transforming the U.S. policy system to reflect the struggles of people marginalized by gender, race, and class. This book is a call to action to redraw policy boundaries until American democracy is more equitable and just"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2024
• Abmessung: 225mm x 148mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781009433044
• ISBN-10: 1009433040
• Artikelnr.: 68543715

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.