Intersectional Advocacy : Redrawing Policy Boundaries Around Gender, Race, and Class / Margaret Perez Brower.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brower, Margaret Perez, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in gender and politics

Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Violence against--United States.

Women.

Intersectionality (Sociology)--United States.

Intersectionality (Sociology).

Marginality, Social--United States.

Marginality, Social.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

What happens to those living at the margins of US politics and policy -- trapped between multiple struggles: gender-based violence, poverty, homelessness, unaffordable healthcare, mass incarcerations, and immigration? In this book, Margaret Perez Brower offers the concept of "intersectional advocacy" to reveal how select organizations addressing gender-based violence are closing policy gaps that perpetuate inequalities by gender, race, ethnicity, and class. Intersectional advocacy is a roadmap for rethinking public policy. The book captures how advocacy groups strategically contest, reimagine, and reconfigure policy institutions using comprehensive new strategies that connect issues together. As these groups challenge traditional ways of addressing the most pressing social issues in the United States, they uncover deep inequities that are housed within these institutions. Ultimately, organizations practicing intersectional advocacy illuminate how to redraw the boundaries of policies in ways that transform US democracy to be more representative, equitable, and just

"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"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction: Movements to end gender-based violence and rethinking feminist advocacy

1. Theory of intersectional advocacy

2. Setting the policy boundaries of the Violence Against Women Act

3. Reconfiguring the Violence Against Women Act

4. Policy linkages and organizational strategy

5. Intersectional advocates and organizations

6. Mobilization and intersectional advocacy

7. Challenges and possibilities ahead

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2024).

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781009433051

1009433059

9781009433082

1009433083

9781009433075

1009433075