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      The problem with the phrase women and minorities: intersectionality-an important theoretical framework for public health.

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      American journal of public health
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          Intersectionality is a theoretical framework that posits that multiple social categories (e.g., race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status) intersect at the micro level of individual experience to reflect multiple interlocking systems of privilege and oppression at the macro, social-structural level (e.g., racism, sexism, heterosexism). Public health's commitment to social justice makes it a natural fit with intersectionality's focus on multiple historically oppressed populations. Yet despite a plethora of research focused on these populations, public health studies that reflect intersectionality in their theoretical frameworks, designs, analyses, or interpretations are rare. Accordingly, I describe the history and central tenets of intersectionality, address some theoretical and methodological challenges, and highlight the benefits of intersectionality for public health theory, research, and policy.

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          Journal
          Am J Public Health
          American journal of public health
          American Public Health Association
          1541-0048
          0090-0036
          Jul 2012
          : 102
          : 7
          Affiliations
          [1 ] Department of Community Health and Prevention, School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA. iab26@drexel.edu
          Article
          10.2105/AJPH.2012.300750
          3477987
          22594719
          6e707ea4-2429-4d45-9718-00ef7f9d63cb
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