Enhancing Intersectional Analyses with Polyvocality: Making and Illustrating the Model

Since the inception of the intersectionality framework by feminists over three decades ago, scholars have advanced the analysis and subsequent understanding of peoples’ social locations, identity constructions, and systems of oppression involving gender, ethnicity, religion, class, and caste, to nam...

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