In Winter 2019, I was the first graduate student to run the Sexualities Project at Northwestern’s Interdisciplinary Reading Group. As part of that, and in collaboration with the participants, I developed the reading list for the group. Below is the compiled readings, designed to ground conversations on intersectionality theory, as well as the debates around the theory as it has traveled through different disciplines. Some of the included articles were used to discuss the role of intersectionality in analysis and don’t necessarily explicitly touch on intersectionality theory. This list was intended as a starting point for discussions and not an exhaustive list of resources.

Session 1: Intersectionality and its roots

Combahee River Collective: A Black Feminist Statement. 1977.

Crenshaw, K. (1994). Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.

Hancock, Ange-Marie. "When multiplication doesn't equal quick addition: Examining intersectionality as a research paradigm." Perspectives on politics 5, no. 1 (2007): 63-79.

McCall, Leslie. 2005. “The Complexity of Intersectionality.”

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Session 2: Intersectionality and current conversations

Cho, Sumi, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, and Leslie McCall. "Toward a field of intersectionality studies: Theory, applications, and praxis." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 38, no. 4 (2013): 785-810.

Duong, K. (2012). What does queer theory teach us about intersectionality?. Politics & Gender, 8(3), 370-386.

May, V. M. (2014). “Speaking into the void”? Intersectionality critiques and epistemic backlash. Hypatia, 29(1), 94-112.

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Session 3: Intersectionality and practice I

Puar, Jasbir K. "“I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess”: Becoming-intersectional in assemblage theory." PhiloSOPHIA, (2012): 49-66.

Collins, P. H. (2011). Piecing Together a Genealogical Puzzle. Intersectionality and American Pragmatism. European Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy, 3(III-2).

Lowe, L. (1991). Heterogeneity, hybridity, multiplicity: marking Asian American differences. Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, 1(1), 24-44.

Nguyen, T. H. (2014). A view from the bottom: Asian American masculinity and sexual representation. Duke University Press. (Chapter 1) (Thanks to Benson Zhou!)

Strolovitch, D. Z. (2012). Intersectionality in time: Sexuality and the shifting boundaries of intersectional marginalization. Politics & Gender, 8(3), 386-396. (Thanks to Rhiannon Auriemma!)

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Session 4: Intersectionality and practice II

Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. "Disappearing Acts: Reclaiming Intersectionality in the Social Sciences in a Post—Black Feminist Era." Feminist Formations (2012): 1-25.

Bauer, G. R. (2014). Incorporating intersectionality theory into population health research methodology: Challenges and the potential to advance health equity. Social science & medicine, 110, 10-17.

Teti, M., Martin, A. E., Ranade, R., Massie, J., Malebranche, D. J., Tschann, J. M., & Bowleg, L. (2012). “I’ma Keep Rising. I’ma Keep Going Forward, Regardless” Exploring Black Men’s Resilience Amid Sociostructural Challenges and Stressors. Qualitative Health Research, 22(4), 524-533.

Evans, C. R. (2019). Adding interactions to models of intersectional health inequalities: Comparing multilevel and conventional methods. Social Science & Medicine, 221, 95-105. (Thanks to Tony Silva!)

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Session 5: Intersectionality and ethics

Hankivsky, O. (2014). Rethinking care ethics: On the promise and potential of an intersectional analysis. American Political Science Review, 108(2), 252-264.

Cathy Cohen, 2001. "Punks, BullDaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?"

Dhamoon, R. K. (2011). Considerations on mainstreaming intersectionality. Political Research Quarterly, 64(1), 230-243.

King, T. L. (2015). Post-indentitarian and post-intersectional anxiety in the neoliberal corporate university. Feminist Formations, 27(3), 114-138. (Thanks to Rhiannon Auriemma!)

Bliss, J. (2016). Black Feminism Out of Place. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 41(4), 727-749. (Thanks to Rhiannon Auriemma!)

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Additional Readings Suggested by Reading Group Members: 

Suggested by Tony Silva: Collins, P. H. (2015). Intersectionality's definitional dilemmas. Annual review of sociology, 41, 1-20.

Suggested by Dominique Adams-Romena: Moore, M. R. (2010). ARTICULATING A POLITICS OF (MULTIPLE) IDENTITIES 1: LGBT Sexuality and Inclusion in Black Community Life. Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 7(2), 315-334.

Suggested by Brian Feinstein: Bauer, G. R., & Scheim, A. I. (2019). Methods for analytic intercategorical intersectionality in quantitative research: Discrimination as a mediator of health inequalities. Social Science & Medicine.

Suggested by Brian Feinstein: Scheim, A. I., & Bauer, G. R. (2019). The Intersectional Discrimination Index: Development and validation of measures of self-reported enacted and anticipated discrimination for intercategorical analysis. Social Science & Medicine.

Suggested by Cristina Traina: When the Suffrage Movement Sold Out to White Supremacy. New York Times. Link (Links to an external site.).

Suggested by Kenneth Pass:  Bowleg, L. (2008). When Black+ lesbian+ woman≠ Black lesbian woman: The methodological challenges of qualitative and quantitative intersectionality research. Sex roles, 59(5-6), 312-325. 

Suggested by Kenneth Pass: Bowleg, L. (2012). The problem with the phrase women and minorities: intersectionality—an important theoretical framework for public health. American journal of public health, 102(7), 1267-1273. 

Suggested by Kenneth Pass: Nash, J. C. (2008). Re-thinking intersectionality. Feminist review, 89(1), 1-15.