Putting Intersectionality into Practice in Different Configurations of Equality Architecture: Belgium and the Netherlands

Crenshaw's powerful take against “thinking about subordination as disadvantage occurring along a single categorical axis” ( <cross-ref type="bib" refid="JXS021C19">1989</cross-ref>, University of Chicago Legal Forum) has been taken up by many scholars and practitioners as a major challenge in legal and policy development. Yet, although her criticism is clear, the implications for practice are not. This article asks what happens when legal frameworks and institutional bodies are fragmented and at the outset not designed for intersectionality. Using the cases of the Netherlands with... Mehr ...