Feb. 19 INTERSECTIONAL MOVEMENT MEANINGS & FRAMINGS

Lesson Learning Objectives

This course is a graduate research seminar intending to provide participants with the following:

A review of notable examples of research about how social movements take up ideas of intersectionality.
A space for in-depth consideration of current research about intersectional social movement action such that course participants will become familiar with key questions and limitations of social movement intersectionality in action.
An opportunity to do continual analyses of social movements using an intersectional lens such that participants will develop fluency in raising and engaging questions from an intersectional perspective.

Class Agenda

Mini-lecture by Dr. Broad

Discussion facilitation of readings by class colleagues

Readings:

Terriquez, V. and T. Brenes, A. Lopez. 2018. “Intersectionality as a Multipurpose Collective Action Frame: The Case of the Undocumented Youth Movement.” Ethnicities 18(2): 260-276.

Whittier, N. 2016. “Carceral and Intersectional Feminism in Congress: The Violence Against Women Act, Discourse, and Policy” Gender & Society 30 (5): 791-818.

Hiraide, L. A., & Evans, E. 2023. “Intersectionality and social movements: a comparison of environmentalist and disability rights movements” Social Movement Studies, 24(3), 344–361.

Lecture

Any slides used will be posted here.

Assignments for Next Class

Readings

Chun, J.H., G. Lipsitz, Y, Shin, 2013. “Intersectionality as a Social Movement Strategy: Asian Immigrant Women Advocates.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society 38 (4): 917-940.

Thuma, E. 2019. Chapter 1: “Lessons in Self Defense: From Free Joan Little to Free them All” In All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing and The Feminist Fight to End Violence. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. [Ebook in UF libraries: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ufl/reader.action?docID=5747461&ppg=1

Montoya 2023. Studying Latina Mobilization Intersectionally, Studying Latinas Mobilizing Intersectionality, In D’Agostino, S., & E. Brown, N. (Eds.).Intersectional (Feminist) Activisms: Global Practices and Experiences (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003471547

DUE: Review 6 /Discussion Reflection 6