Book contents
- Intersectional Advocacy
- Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics
- Intersectional Advocacy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Movements to End Gender-Based Violence and Rethinking Feminist Advocacy
- 1 Theory of Intersectional Advocacy
- 2 Setting the Policy Boundaries of the Violence Against Women Act
- 3 Reconfiguring the Violence Against Women Act
- 4 Policy Linkages and Organizational Strategy
- 5 Intersectional Advocates and Organizations
- 6 Mobilization and Intersectional Advocacy
- 7 The Challenges and Possibilities Ahead
- Book part
- References
- Index
Introduction - Movements to End Gender-Based Violence and Rethinking Feminist Advocacy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2024
- Intersectional Advocacy
- Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics
- Intersectional Advocacy
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction Movements to End Gender-Based Violence and Rethinking Feminist Advocacy
- 1 Theory of Intersectional Advocacy
- 2 Setting the Policy Boundaries of the Violence Against Women Act
- 3 Reconfiguring the Violence Against Women Act
- 4 Policy Linkages and Organizational Strategy
- 5 Intersectional Advocates and Organizations
- 6 Mobilization and Intersectional Advocacy
- 7 The Challenges and Possibilities Ahead
- Book part
- References
- Index
Summary
The book opens with the story of Mariella Batista, a woman who was unable to access essential services through the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) in 1994 because of her immigration status and who tragically died from intimate partner abuse. Her experiences with VAWA reveal the ways in which policy institutions are rigidly confined to one primary issue area (i.e., gendered violence) and as such these laws fail to serve women with other marginalized identities (i.e., Latinx, noncitizen, low-income women). Her story illuminates the institutional inequalities that lie within U.S. policy institutions. The remainder of this introduction chapter explains the history behind these institutions and the ways in which women have resisted them for centuries. These historical moments set the contemporary landscape for advocacy within today’s movement to address gendered violence. This chapter then introduces the concept of “intersectional advocacy” led by organizations that are reimagining and reconfiguring policies to better represent women like Mariella.
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- Intersectional AdvocacyRedrawing Policy Boundaries Around Gender, Race, and Class, pp. 1 - 24Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024