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Can intersectionality help with understanding and tackling health inequalities? Perspectives of professional stakeholders

open access: yesHealth Research Policy and Systems, 2021
Background The concept of “intersectionality” is increasingly employed within public health arenas, particularly in North America, and is often heralded as offering great potential to advance health inequalities research and action.
Daniel Holman   +6 more
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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
doaj   +1 more source

Future Directions for Incorporating Intersectionality Into Quantitative Population Health Research.

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2020
Intersectionality, an analytical approach rooted in Black feminist theory and praxis, has become more widely used in population health research. The majority of quantitative population health studies have used intersectionality as a theoretical framework
Madina Agénor
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Between the waves: currents in contemporary feminist thought [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
With a continuing focus on liberal feminism, Marxist feminism and essentialism, one would be forgiven for thinking that feminist theory is unable to break free from the ‘second wave’. This is not the case.
Hague, R
core   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Disordered but rhythmic—the role of intrinsic protein disorder in eukaryotic circadian timing

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Unstructured domains known as intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are present in nearly every part of the eukaryotic core circadian oscillator. IDRs enable many diverse inter‐ and intramolecular interactions that support clock function. IDR conformations are highly tunable by post‐translational modifications and environmental conditions, which ...
Emery T. Usher, Jacqueline F. Pelham
wiley   +1 more source

‘Caring for Him Makes Me More Sensitive, like a Kind of Prayer’: Intimate Physical Care for Aging Family Members with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Religious Muslim and Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Societies

open access: yesScandinavian Journal of Disability Research
This study explores social dynamics of aging family members providing intimate physical care to relatives with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in ultra-Orthodox Jewish and Arab communities in Israel.
Alon Zamir, Rabab Awad
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Intersectionality Research Within Latinx Mental Health: Conceptual and Methodological Considerations [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Intersectionality considers the meaning and consequences associated with multiple identities along interlocking systems of disadvantage and inequality (Cole, 2009; Crenshaw, 1991).
Bird, Claire Maria   +3 more
core   +1 more source

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