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Feminist Democratic Design and the Redress of Intersectional Representational Problematics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2024

Karen Celis  and
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Karen Celis
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Sarah Childs*
Affiliation:
School of Social and Political Science, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
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Corresponding author: Sarah Childs; Email: [email protected]
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If one were to write the history of representation from an intersectional perspective, it would read as a veritable comedy of errors. A story, in short of inclusion and exclusion, privileging and marginalization, and of good, mis-, poor, and non-representation. No facet of politics is untouched by these dynamics – whether civil society or formal political participation, political recruitment and leadership, or policy and legislation (Siow 2023).

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Critical Perspectives Article
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Politics & Gender , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , September 2024 , pp. 734 - 739
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association

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Footnotes

We would like to acknowledge that this contribution has benefitted from previous discussions with Petra Ahrens, Alice el-Wakil, and Niels Spierings.

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