Intersectional Advocacy: Redrawing Policy Boundaries Around Gender, Race, and Cl

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Illustrates the practice of 'intersectional advocacy' by showing how organizations addressing gender-based violence are transforming the US policy system to reflect the struggles of people marginalized by gender, race, and class. This book is a call to action to redraw policy boundaries until American democracy is more equitable and just.

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What happens to those living at the margins of US politics and policy – trapped between multiple struggles: gender-based violence, poverty, homelessness, unaffordable healthcare, mass incarceration and immigration? In this book, Margaret Perez Brower offers the concept of 'intersectional advocacy' to reveal how select organizations addressing gender-based violence are closing policy gaps that perpetuate inequalities by gender, race, ethnicity, and class. Intersectional advocacy is a roadmap for rethinking public policy. The book captures how advocacy groups strategically contest, reimagine, and reconfigure policy institutions using comprehensive new strategies that connect issues together. As these groups challenge traditional ways of addressing the most pressing social issues in the US, they uncover deep inequities that are housed within these institutions. Ultimately, organizations practicing intersectional advocacy illuminate how to redraw the boundaries of policies in ways that transform US democracy to be more representative, equitable, and just.

Author Biography

Margaret Perez Brower is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington. Her work focuses on the politics of race, ethnicity, and gender and how these politics shape US institutions, advocacy, policymaking, and social movements.

Table of Contents

Introduction: movements to end gender-based violence and rethinking feminist advocacy; 1. Theory of intersectional advocacy; 2. Setting the policy boundaries of the Vawa; 3. Reconfiguring the Vawa; 4. Policy linkages & organizational strategy; 5. Intersectional advocates and organizations; 6. Mobilization and intersectional advocacy; Conclusion: the challenges and possibilities ahead; References; Research Appendix: Vawa textual analysis; Research Appendix: Qualitative case studies; Research Appendix: Experimental methods.

Review

'In this powerful and important book, Perez Brower uses a multimethod approach grounded in experiences of intersectional advocates as well as social scientific analysis of hypotheticals to draw conclusions about the real and potential impact of intersectional advocacy. She shows the way that intersectional advocates highlight linkages between issues where traditional or single-issue policy advocacy failed to make connections. By making these linkages, advocates transform or 'reconfigure' the policy function of the state, fundamentally altering power dynamics. The book not only deepens our theoretical understanding of intersectional advocacy, but also offers lessons for those who want to advance change and improve policy responses to gender-based violence. Engagingly written and passionate in its commitments, the book is must-read for all scholars of policymaking, especially those wishing to understand gender-based violence and/or the substantive representation of marginalized groups in the United States.' S. Laurel Weldon, Simon Fraser University

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A call to action to redraw policy boundaries until they transform U.S. democracy to be more inclusive, equitable, and just.

Details ISBN1009433040 Author Margaret Perez Brower Publisher Cambridge University Press Series Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781009433044 Format Paperback Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Redrawing Policy Boundaries Around Gender, Race, and Class Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9781009433075 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises Audience General ISBN-10 1009433040 Publication Date 2024-01-04 UK Release Date 2024-01-04 DEWEY 362.88082 Pages 320 We've got this

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