The problem with the phrase women and minorities: intersectionality-an important theoretical framework for public health.

By Lisa Bowleg. American Journal of Public Health, 2012

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Pharmacy, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Privilege and Oppression in Counselor Education: An Intersectionality Framework (2018, background): “…that qualitative data and research on this topic be extended beyond the scope of their investigation. intersectionality as framework Intersectionality theory applications are interdisciplinary (Bowleg, 2008, 2012; Warner, 2008) with evidence in law, sociology, psychology, counseling, and education.”
Invited Reflection (2016, background): “Yet, this structural viewpoint is essential to structural interventions; a myopic focus on the individual fosters primarily individual-level solutions to problems with little or no opportunity to intervene and alter the larger more fundamental roots of structural inequality (Bauer, 2014; Bowleg, 201”
What If Psychology Took Intersectionality Seriously? Changing How Psychologists Think About Participants (2019, background): “For instance, Bowleg (2013) found through her qualitative interviews that Black gay and bisexual men consider power dynamics in construing their intersectional positions. For participants, identifying as Black primarily or as inseparably Black gay men depended on the situation and the salient power ”
SELF-REPORTED EXPERIENCES OF DISCRIMINATION AND HEALTH: SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES, ONGOING CONTROVERSIES, AND EMERGING ISSUES (2015, background): “…(Crenshaw 1989, Purdie-Vaughns & Eibach 2008), researchers have noted the advantage of this approach for understanding the unique experiences of HIV-positive gay African American men, low-income Latina lesbians, and others at the intersection of two or more disadvantaged statuses (Bowleg 2012).”
The Giving Voice to Mothers study: inequity and mistreatment during pregnancy and childbirth in the United States (2019, background): “The concept of intersectionality is rarely considered during design, analysis or interpretation of public health studies [28]; we aimed to address this gap in this study.”
Disparities at the intersection of marginalized groups (2016, background): “Recently, researchers have argued that quantitative approaches to intersectionality hold promise for public health as they could inform policy, and also called attention to the scant guidance onwhichmeasures andmodels are appropriate [3, 4, 11, 12].”
Intersectionality in quantitative research: A systematic review of its emergence and applications of theory and methods (2021, methodology): “These oversights may be a product of concept trendiness (Davis, 2008), in that researchers may latch onto a concept without a foundational understanding of its central tenets (Bowleg, 2012).”
The role of social media in sex education: Dispatches from queer, trans, and racialized communities (2018, background): “…coined by black feminist scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw (1991) to describe the exclusion of black women from both white feminism and antiracist discourse, provides a unifying framework to conceptualize, investigate, and analyze disparities in health (Bowleg, 2012; Hankivsky & Christoffersen, 2008).”