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Mentoring in STEM higher education: a synthesis of the literature to (re)present the excluded women of color

open access: yesInternational Journal of STEM Education, 2022
Mentoring initiatives for undergraduate and graduate women of color (WOC) have provided peer-to-peer relationships and counterspaces to disrupt the inequitable treatment of students in STEM higher education (HE).
Tara Nkrumah, Kimberly A. Scott
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Where Identities Converge: The Importance of Intersectionality in Eating Disorders Research

open access: yesInternational Journal of Eating Disorders, 2020
Disparities in eating disorder (ED) risk, diagnosis, and treatment for those who occupy multiple marginalized social identities (e.g., combined racial/ethnic and sexual minority statuses), underscore the need for advancing multicultural research in the ...
Natasha L. Burke   +3 more
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Applying intersectionality theory in health promotion research and practice.

open access: yesHealth Promotion International, 2020
Health promotion researchers and practitioners are grappling with how to address growing health inequalities for population groups. In particular, critiques of dominant behaviour change approaches draw attention to the need to engage with social theories
Emma Heard   +3 more
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Disability and the problem of lazy intersectionality

open access: yesDisability & Society, 2022
Crenshaw’s concept of intersectionality has been used to include different dimensions of difference and exclusion. We suggest here, however, that intersectional analyses may paradoxically further exclude discussions of the impact of disability in ...
B. Watermeyer, L. Swartz
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The Dual Subject of Intersectionality

open access: yesKvinder, Køn & Forskning
This article argues that there is a dual subject at stake in contemporary invocations of intersectionality: on the one hand, a subject of ‘lived experience’, a subject that ‘can be taken at its word’, on the other hand a subject that is an effect of the
Katrine Høghøj
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Charting Relations between Intersectionality Theory and the Neurodiversity Paradigm

open access: yesDisability Studies Quarterly, 2017
This essay explores central elements and applications of intersectionality theory and the neurodiversity paradigm. First, the histories and tenets of intersectionality theory and neurodiversity paradigm are provided.
Lauren Rose Strand
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Functional need or personal choice: Medical professionals’ understanding and framing of performing female genital cosmetic procedures

open access: yesWomen's Health
Background: Female genital cosmetic procedures (FGCPs) are becoming increasingly common but remain highly stigmatised and contested. This raises the question of how healthcare professionals justify performing FGCPs in such a context.
Hannelore Van Bavel, Anne-Mette Hermans
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Beyond the Trinity of Gender, Race and Class

open access: yesEuropean Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 2021
Research exploring the gendered dimensions of adult learning has blossomed in the past two decades. Despite this trend, intersectional approaches in adult learning, research, and teaching remain limited primarily to the three categories of gender, race,
Cindy Hanson, Amber Fletcher
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Palliative care research utilising intersectionality: a scoping review

open access: yesBMC Palliative Care, 2023
Background Access to palliative care is recognised as a human right, yet clear disparities exist. There have been recent appeals to examine people’s contexts and interactions with social systems which for many, adversely influence their utilisation of ...
Helen Butler   +4 more
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What is intersectionality and why is it important in oral health research?

open access: yesCommunity Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 2020
This paper is the second of two reviews that seek to stimulate debate on new and neglected avenues in oral health research. The first commissioned narrative review, "Inclusion oral health: Advancing a theoretical framework for policy, research and ...
Vanessa Elaine Muirhead   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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