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Institutionalizing Intersectionality: A Theoretical Framework

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Institutionalizing Intersectionality

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This collection focuses on the politics of multiple inequalities in Europe. It does so from the perspective of prior gender equality policy. It aims to evaluate the ways in which multiple inequalities are being addressed institutionally in Europe, and to identify the changing patterns of institutionalization. Using country-based and region-specific case studies the collection offers a comparative analysis of the multidimensional equality regimes that are emerging in Europe, and analyses the potential that these have for ‘institutionalizing intersectionality’.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Center for Policy Studies, Central European University, Hungary

    Andrea Krizsan (Research Fellow) (Research Fellow)

  2. Department of Political Science, University of Oslo, Norway

    Hege Skjeie (Professor of Political Science) (Professor of Political Science)

  3. University of Bristol, UK

    Judith Squires (Professor of Political Theory) (Professor of Political Theory)

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Krizsan, A., Skjeie, H., Squires, J. (2012). Institutionalizing Intersectionality: A Theoretical Framework. In: Krizsan, A., Skjeie, H., Squires, J. (eds) Institutionalizing Intersectionality. Gender and Politics series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137031068_1

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