Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting 2011

The concept of intersectionality or an intersectional framework, introduced about twenty years ago, has enriched and transformed academic research across many disciplines. Its application allows scholars to explore the simultaneous and multiplicative interaction of class, race, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, sexuality, disability, citizenship and other axes of inequality in people’s lives as mutually constructing systems of power. The 2011 Meeting will focus on how an intersectional approach has been developed and utilized in different ways across the subfields of sociology. What methodologies best help us do an intersectional analysis? In what areas have intersectional analyses been most successful? What is the most recent research in these areas? How has using an intersectional approach advanced our knowledge?