Disability as a New Frontier for Feminist Intersectionality Research

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6355012
AutoresNancy J Hirschmann (0000-0002-6189-4509, University of Pennsylvania, autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen8
Número3
Páginas396-405
Fecha de publicación2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPolitics & Gender (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1743-923X • E-ISSN: 1743-9248
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1743923x12000384
OpenAlexW2083866284
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas17

Disability is the new gender. I make this claim with trepidation and a sense of irony. Certainly, disability studies today is like women's studies was in the 1970s and 1980s, when feminist scholars had to convince colleagues in “mainstream” political science that gender was something worth attending to, that it was a serious enterprise, and that it should be part of the mainstream. The fields of history and English have been somewhat more welcoming of disability as a valid topic of study, just as these fields preceded political science in realizing that gender was an important category of study. But political science has been slow to catch on

Frontier · Intersectionality · Political science · Sociology · Disability Rights and Representation · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Gender Studies