We are proud to announce the publication of our book, Why Race and Gender Still Matter: An Intersectional Approach (Editors: Namita Goswami, Maeve M O'Donovan and Lisa Yount. Pickering & Chatto Publishers, February 2014).

Table of Contents:

Introduction to Why Race and Gender Still Matter: An Intersectional Analysis – Namita Goswami, Maeve M O’Donovan and Lisa Yount

Part I: Defining Intersectionality
1 Race Women, Race Men and Early Expressions of Proto-Intersectionality, 1830s–1930s – Kathryn T Gines
2 Past as Prologue: Intersectional Analysis from the Nineteenth Century to the Twenty-First – Kristin Waters
3 Making Sense: The Multistability of Oppression and the Importance of Intersectionality – Kristie Dotson
4 Reinvigorating Intersectionality as a Provisional Concept – Anna Carastathis
5 ‘Big Red Sun Blues’: Intersectionality, Temporality and the Police Order of Identity Politics – Tina Chanter

Part II: Doing Intersectionality
6 Continental Feminist Philosophy Meets Intersectionality: Rosi Braidotti’s Work – Iveta Jusová
7 Purposeful Nonsense, Intersectionality and the Mission to Save Black Babies – Melissa M Kozma and Jeanine Weekes Schroer
8 Transitional Subjects: Gender, Race and the Biopolitics of the Real – Marie Draz
9 Caster Semenya: Reasoning Up Front with Race – Janine Jones
10 Philosophical Happiness and the Relational Production of Philosophical Space – Heather Rakes
11 Theory Can Heal: Constructing an Ethos of Intervention – Jennifer Scuro

 

Namita Goswami, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Indiana State University

Maeve O'Donovan, Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Notre Dame of Maryland University

Lisa Yount, Associate Professor of Philosophy and QEP Director, Savannah State University