Power Redux: Intersectionality, Resistance, and Minority women legislators
Posted: 14 Nov 2018
Date Written: November 13, 2018
Abstract
We advance the conversation of power and influence in political science by arguing that the current assumptions in the conceptualization of power limit how scholars understand the ways that women of color legislators create influence. We develop the theory of intersectional resistance by centering the analysis of the experiences of women of color legislators to explain how they create power to influence their legislative institutions. We explore our theory by using current gubernatorial candidate and former Minority Leader of the Georgia State legislature Stacey Abrams as a case study by collecting speeches, bills, and newspapers triangulating Abrams narrative to explain how she demonstrates intersectional resistance.
Keywords: Power, Intersectionality, Resistance, Minority women legislators
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