IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/elg/eechap/20153_7.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Seeking intersectionality in feminist governance

In: Handbook of Feminist Governance

Author

Listed:
  • Erica Townsend-Bell

Abstract

Feminist governance is concerned with fomenting gender equality. Intersectionality is rooted in a mandate to probe the notion and implementation of equality in a deeper, more nuanced manner. While some feminist governance initiatives purport to engage with the insights of intersectionality, attempts to integrate these insights to the multi-layered spaces of said governance are often wanting. This intersectionally-oriented review engages with the ongoing problem of gaps between intersectional theory and praxis that help to explain this mismatch. I elaborate the ways in which these gaps function to limit attention to some kinds of feminist subjects and feminist projects in ways that are often, though not always, unintended. I follow by considering the ways in which a more careful engagement with the insights of intersectional and decolonial feminism can help to move past this impasse.

Suggested Citation

  • Erica Townsend-Bell, 2023. "Seeking intersectionality in feminist governance," Chapters, in: Marian Sawer & Lee A. Banaszak & Jacqui True & Johanna Kantola (ed.), Handbook of Feminist Governance, chapter 7, pages 88-99, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20153_7
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781800374812/9781800374812.00013.xml
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:20153_7. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Darrel McCalla (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.e-elgar.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.