This essay on feminist organisational principles, traces the development of key feminist concepts and illustrates how they are instantiated in feminist practices of governance, drawing on scholarly treatments, social movement organising and other institutional settings.

This essay focuses on the practical implications of intersectionality for social movements. It reviews prominent definitions of intersectionality, identifies a series of tenets, and presents a brief history of the notion of intersectionality.

“Enacting Intersectional Solidarity in the Puerto Rican Student Movement.” In Gendered Mobilizations, eds. Jill Irvine, Sabine Lang, Celeste Montoya. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd. 2019, pp. 171-187.

In this chapter, Nadia E. Brown, Guillermo Caballero, Fernando Tormos, Allison Wong, and Sharonda Woodford argue that despite criticism of Second-Wave feminists for ignoring the intersection of race and gender, the movement, when viewed in conjunction with the African American Civil Rights Movement proved influential for Black women who came of age during this period, launching a generation of female, African American state political leaders.