Some Intersectionality Readings

An intersectionality primer by topic can be found here. To suggest a reading or resource, add here. The list will be updated on a monthly basis.

• Agénor, Madina. “Future Directions for Incorporating Intersectionality Into Quantitative Population Health Research.” American Journal of Public Health 110, no. 6 (2020): 803-806.
• Bauer GR. Incorporating intersectionality theory into population health research methodology: challenges and the potential to advance health equity. Soc Sci Med. 2014;110:10-17. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.03.022
• Bauer GR & Scheim AI. Methods for analytic intercategorical intersectionality in quantitative research- Discrimination as a mediator of health inequalities. Soc Sci Med. 2019. 226. 236-245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.12.015
• Bowleg, Lisa. “The Problem with the Phrase Women and Minorities: Intersectionality-an Important Theoretical Framework for Public Health.” American Journal of Public Health 103, no. 7 (2012): 1267-1273.
• Bowleg, Lisa. “We’re not all in this together: On COVID-19, intersectionality, and structural inequality.” American journal of public health 110, no. 7 (2020): 917.
• Chen, Irene Y., Peter Szolovits, and Marzyeh Ghassemi. “Can AI help reduce disparities in general medical and mental health care?.” AMA journal of ethics 21, no. 2 (2019): 167-179.
• Cho, Sumi, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, and Leslie McCall. “Toward a field of intersectionality studies: Theory, applications, and praxis.” Signs: Journal of women in culture and society 38, no. 4 (2013): 785-810.
• Crenshaw, Kimberlé W. On intersectionality: Essential writings. The New Press, 2017.
• Crenshaw, Kimberlé. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color.” Stanford Law Review 43 (1989): 1241.
• Ehlers & Krupar (2017) When Treating Patients Like Criminals Makes Sense”: Medical Hot Spotting, Race, and Debt“ in eds. Ehlers & Hinkson (2017) Subprime Health: Debt and Race in U.S. Medicine. University of Minnesota Press
• Evans, Clare R. “Modeling the intersectionality of processes in the social production of health inequalities.” Social Science & Medicine 226 (2019): 249-253.
• Green, Mark A., Clare R. Evans, and Subu V. Subramanian. “Can intersectionality theory enrich population health research?” (2017).
• Ruth Wilson Gilmore (2007) Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, & Opposition in Globalizing California. University of California Press
• Katz, Amy S., Billie-Jo Hardy, Michelle Firestone, Aisha Lofters, and Melody E. Morton-Ninomiya. “Vagueness, power and public health: use of ‘vulnerable ‘in public health literature.” Critical Public Health (2019): 1-11.
• Mandelbaum, Jennifer. “Advancing health equity by integrating intersectionality into epidemiological research: applications and challenges.” J Epidemiol Community Health (2020).
• Mullings, Leith. “Resistance and resilience: The Sojourner Syndrome and the social context of reproduction in Central Harlem.” Transforming Anthropology 13, no. 2 (2005): 79.
• Peek, Monica E., Fanny Y. Lopez, H. Sharif Williams, Lucy J. Xu, Moira C. McNulty, M. Ellen Acree, and John A. Schneider. “Development of a conceptual framework for understanding shared decision making among African-American LGBT patients and their clinicians.” Journal of general internal medicine 31, no. 6 (2016): 677-687.
• Obermeyer, Z., Powers, B., Vogeli, C., & Mullainathan, S. (2019). Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations. Science, 366(6464), 447–453. 
• Persmark, Anna, Maria Wemrell, Clare R. Evans, S. V. Subramanian, George Leckie, and Juan Merlo. “Intersectional inequalities and the US opioid crisis: challenging dominant narratives and revealing heterogeneities.” Critical Public Health (2019): 1-17.
• Petteway, Ryan J. “LATENT//Missing: On Missing Values, Narrative Power, and Data Politics in Discourse of COVID-19.” Health Education & Behavior 47, no. 5 (2020): 671-676.
• Shim, Janet. Understanding the routinised inclusion of race, socioeconomic status and sex in epidemiology: the utility of concepts from technoscience studies. Sociology of Health and Illness. 24(2). (2002). 129-150. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9566.00288