When Multiplication Doesn't Equal Quick Addition: Examining Intersectionality as a Research Paradigm
2007/02/27 by Ange-Marie Hancock, Ange‐Marie Hancock · 1,957 citations
Mathematics · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Combinatorics #Computer science #Gender Diversity and Inequality #Gender Politics and Representation #Gender studies #Intersectionality #LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy #Mathematics #Multiplication (music) #Psychology #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1017/s1537592707070065
published in Perspectives on Politics 5(1), 63-79 (Cambridge University Press)
openalex publication_date 2007/02/27 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Abstract
In the past twenty years, intersectionality has emerged as a compelling response to arguments on behalf of identity-based politics across the discipline. It has done so by drawing attention to the simultaneous and interacting effects of gender, race, class, sexual orientation, and national origin as categories of difference. Intersectional arguments and research findings have had varying levels of impact in feminist theory, social movements, international human rights, public policy, and electoral behavior research within political science and across the disciplines of sociology, critical legal studies, and history. Yet consideration of intersectionality as a research paradigm has yet to gain a wide foothold in political science. This article closely reads research on race and gender across subfields of political science to present a coherent set of empirical research standards for intersectionality.
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