Gender: An Intersectionality Perspective

Shields, Stephanie A.

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“…21,[79][80][81] SCI has multiple ramifications for personal, social, professional and domestic responsibilities and, while gender is not the only, and not even necessarily the most important, social identity, it is 'the most pervasive, visible and codified' . 82 We cannot 'not do gender' as it is a fundamental part of identity formed in interaction with others. 83 As a concept, gender seems to go in and out of fashion and benefit from periodic revisitation.…”

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“…11,68 It is also necessary to take the implications of intersectionality, or gender as only one of many categories of identity, into account. 82,86,87 The multiplicity of links between gender and health is increasingly being recognised and health behaviours seen as ways of doing gender. 10,65,[88][89][90] Given the prevalence of secondary complications 91 and higher rates of contact with health-care services following SCI, 92 all influences on health behaviours, including gender, warrant consideration.…”

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Masculinity lost: a systematic review of qualitative research on men with spinal cord injury

Nolan

2013

Spinal Cord

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Study design: Systematic, thematic, narrative review of qualitative literature. Objectives: To systematically review qualitative research that explores the impact of spinal cord injury (SCI) on the gendered experience of men with SCI. Methods: A systematic search of databases and hand search of relevant journals to provide a thematic narrative review of articles, providing sufficient depth of information, relevant participant quotes and phenomenological insight into the gendered experience of men with SCI. Identified studies are summarised and common themes extracted and discussed in relation to relevant literature on masculinity, disability and health. Results: Eight papers, representing four separate studies met the review criteria for relevance and rigour. Three broad, overlapping themes describing the gendered experience of men with SCI were identified: 'lost masculinity', outlining the impact of SCI on traditional masculine identity, 'fighting back', describing the battle to regain and reclaim masculinity and integrate disability into a revised identity and 'beyond hegemony', referring to possibilities beyond adherence to traditional masculine scripts. Conclusion: This review demonstrates a lack of explicit focus on men as gendered beings within the available qualitative literature. The findings are consistent with the limited quantitative data, which indicates that grappling with altered gendered identity is a central feature of life for men with SCI. Masculine identity emerges in this review as vulnerable to the impact of SCI, and given the strong links identified between masculinity, rehabilitation and health, as an aspect of experience that warrants more attention than it has received.

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Masculinity lost: a systematic review of qualitative research on men with spinal cord injury

Nolan

2013

Spinal Cord

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“…Also evaluating the effects of multiple levels of social organization at the macro or group level, is the theory of Intersectionality, an approach that considers how a group's place in social hierarchy is simultaneously constituted by constructions including ethnicity, gender, class/ caste, religion and age [23][24][25]. Recognising that stigma "feeds upon, strengthens and reproduces existing inequalities of class, race, gender and sexuality", Rahangdale et al [9] noted that Indian cultural and historical institutions often stigmatise all women with positive HIV sero-status [13].…”

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Women Living with HIV in India: Looking up from a Place of Stigma, Identifying Nexus Sites for Change

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Vissandjée²

2017

Divers Equal Health Care

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Current knowledge• For people living with HIV infection in India, stigma is a pervasive reality and the greatest barrier to accessing treatment, quality of life and survival.• However, women and men experience stigma differently. Despite typically contracting the disease through marital sexual relations, married monogamous women are also subject to stigma resulting from moral blame.• Stigma affects women both in public spheres of social relationships and in private through psychological stresses. These spheres are typically considered in isolation not as interrelating. Novel information• In order to go beyond consideration of discrete public and private arenas of stigma, this paper applies Engel's biopsychosocial model on chronic disease experience as promoting an understanding of the effects of illness on women across their biomedical, social and psychological life arenas. Use of Engel's approach resists binary separation of private and public experiences of HIV related stigma and encourages care responses to address a whole-of-life continuum.• By gaining information from particular groups of HIV-positive women about the whole-of-life situations where they experience stigma related constraint, inter-relationships between stigma sites can be mapped and specific root causes of marginalisation identified.• In the complex context of establishing programs of care for women living with HIV, arranging qualitative information on lived experiences in such a way as to identify interacting barriers to care, can assist in tailoring multifaceted HIV-care programs that address the particular needs of specific groups of women. Such customised programs would embody dual objectives: 1) to respond to the women's own identified and prioritised needs across biomedical, social and psychological arenas in a coordinated manner, and 2) to work to reduce stigma as a barrier to care. ABSTRACTFor women living with HIV infection in India, stigma is a pervasive reality and the greatest barrier to accessing treatment, quality of life and survival. Defining stigma according to Goffman as a socially conceived abnormality, this paper then draws on Engel's biopsychosocial model for chronic disease to show the pervasive nature of stigma as a continuum affecting all dimensions of life for married, monogamous Indian women with positive HIV sero-status. Two distinct perspectives were identified in the literature: 1) Public: social and relational stigma, or 2) Private: internalised psychological stigma. Only four of the twenty published works reviewed noted interrelationships between these public and private spheres. Only one of those employed an ethnographic methodology to understand stigma from the perspective of the women themselves.While concepts associated with stigma among women living with HIV are diversely employed in research, by considering them as a whole through an intersectional biopsychosocial lens, this paper attempts to provide a basis for implementing integrated and tailored responses. Once the manifestations and interconnected caus...

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“…Intersectionality theory has emerged during this period, as a means of addressing the complex ways in which social characteristics are routed through each other. The origins and development of intersectionality theory has been well documented by authors such as Brah and Pheonix (2004), Walby (2007), Nash (2008), Shields (2008), and Grabham et al (2009). Intersectionality theory contributes to our understandings of sexuality in that it can be used to bridge two seemingly disparate approaches to understanding of sexuality: those that take a foundational approach, framing sexuality and gender -or other forces, such as the material -as fundamental to the ways in which individual and social identities are shaped, and those that seek to deconstruct foundational categories (Davis, 2009).…”

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Sexuality, Space and Intersectionality: The Case of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Equalities Initiatives in UK Local Government

Monro

2010

Sociology

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Monro, S (2010) Sociology, 44(5).ABSTRACT The notion of intersectionality has been the subject of uncertainty, with debates taking place as to whether intersectionality studies should focus on the interstices between social characteristics, or should encompass approaches that interrogate the structuring effects of specific social forces. This paper contributes to these debates, by exploring intersectionality in relation to lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) equalities initiatives in UK local government. The paper demonstrates the importance of two social categories, sexuality and the spatial, in structuring LGB equalities work. By siting analysis partially at the institutional level, it also reveals the way in which an individualising approach to intersectionality studies, which focuses only on the interstices, is problematic. The paper therefore provides an argument for an intersectionality studies that incorporates category-based analysis, whilst retaining a concern with the interstices between foundational categories.KEY WORDS Bisexual/gay/equality/lesbian/local government/sexuality/space/Wales '…it is not at all clear whether intersectionality should be limited to understanding individual experiences, to theorizing identity, or whether it should be taken as a property of social structures and cultural discourses ' (Davis, 2009: 68).

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Gender: An Intersectionality Perspective

Cited by 1,140 publications

References 42 publications

Masculinity lost: a systematic review of qualitative research on men with spinal cord injury

Masculinity lost: a systematic review of qualitative research on men with spinal cord injury

Women Living with HIV in India: Looking up from a Place of Stigma, Identifying Nexus Sites for Change

Sexuality, Space and Intersectionality: The Case of Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Equalities Initiatives in UK Local Government

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