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Disability as a New Frontier for Feminist Intersectionality Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 August 2012

Nancy J. Hirschmann
Nancy J. Hirschmann
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The University of Pennsylvania
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Disability is the new gender. I make this claim with trepidation and a sense of irony. Certainly, disability studies today is like women's studies was in the 1970s and 1980s, when feminist scholars had to convince colleagues in “mainstream” political science that gender was something worth attending to, that it was a serious enterprise, and that it should be part of the mainstream. The fields of history and English have been somewhat more welcoming of disability as a valid topic of study, just as these fields preceded political science in realizing that gender was an important category of study. But political science has been slow to catch on.

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Critical Perspectives on Gender and Politics
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Politics & Gender , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , September 2012 , pp. 396 - 405
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Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2012

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