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Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality

Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality is a research topic within Sociology and Political Science. Science Explorer counts 1k research works in it since 1971. 10.6% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers critically examines vulnerability, resistance, and oppression within the contexts of gender, colonialism, and globalization. It explores the ethics of care, social justice, and human rights through an intersectional lens, addressing the complexities of power dynamics and systemic inequalities.

  • Vulnerability
  • Resistance
  • Gender
  • Colonialism
  • Feminism
  • Ethics of Care
  • Social Justice
  • Human Rights
  • Intersectionality
  • Globalization
Research works
1k
fractional, since 1971
In the world top 10%
107
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.6%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+86%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
United States
24% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality

Which countries lead Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality research?

By volume, the United States and France publish the most (86 and 85 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 United States 86 works
  2. 2 France 85 works
  3. 3 United Kingdom 47 works
  4. 4 Canada 36 works
  5. 5 India 24 works
  6. 6 Italy 19 works
  7. 7 Spain 17 works
  8. 8 Belgium 16 works
  9. 9 Germany 14 works
  10. 10 Australia 14 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States: 24.0%France: 23.7%United Kingdom: 13.0%Canada: 10.1%6 others listed: 29.1%24%largest
United States86 · 24.0%France85 · 23.7%United Kingdom47 · 13.0%Canada36 · 10.1%6 others listed104 · 29.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality research, followed by Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 27 works
  2. 2 Institute for Peace Research and Security PolicyGermany 3 works
  3. 3 University of TorontoCanada 3 works
  4. 4 Université LavalCanada 3 works
  5. 5 Université de LorraineFrance 3 works
  6. 6 Woodbury UniversityUnited States 3 works
  7. 7 Université de MontréalCanada 3 works
  8. 8 Université de StrasbourgFrance 2 works
  9. 9 Sapienza University of RomeItaly 2 works
  10. 10 University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States 2 works

Who are the leading researchers in Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality include Judith Butler and Nancy Wickwire Fraser.

  1. 1 Judith Butler United States 116k citations
  2. 2 Nancy Wickwire Fraser United States 49k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality?

The most cited paper in Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality is "Spectacles of migrant ‘illegality’: the scene of exclusion, the obscene of inclusion" (Nicholas De Genova, 2013), with 1,147 citations. Next come "Precarious Life, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Cohabitation" (560) and "From ‘gender equality and ‘women’s empowerment’ to global justice: reclaiming a transformative agenda for gender and development" (521).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Spectacles of migrant ‘illegality’: the scene of exclusion, the obscene of inclusion Nicholas De Genova · Ethnic and Racial Studies 24 May 2013 1,147
2 Precarious Life, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Cohabitation Judith Butler · The Journal of Speculative Philosophy Apr 2012 560
3 From ‘gender equality and ‘women’s empowerment’ to global justice: reclaiming a transformative agenda for gender and development Andréa Cornwall, Althea-Maria Rivas · Third World Quarterly Open access Feb 2015 521
4 The Biopolitics of Settler Colonialism: Right Here, Right Now Scott Lauria Morgensen · Settler Colonial Studies Open access 2011 457
5 White innocence in the Black Mediterranean: hospitality and the erasure of history Ida Danewid · Third World Quarterly Open access 2 Jun 2017 318
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Where is Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality research done?

The largest centres of Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality research in 2022-now are Paris (France), London (United Kingdom), Montreal (Canada) and Toronto (Canada). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Paris.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 ParisFrance 26 works
  2. 2 LondonUnited Kingdom 13 works
  3. 3 MontrealCanada 8 works
  4. 4 TorontoCanada 7 works
  5. 5 New YorkUnited States 6 works
  6. 6 RomeItaly 6 works
  7. 7 AmsterdamNetherlands 5 works
  8. 8 Mexico CityMexico 5 works
  9. 9 MadridSpain 5 works
  10. 10 BrusselsBelgium 5 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ParisFR · 26.3 works6.1×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality than the world average.

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Is Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 86% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2026. The fastest-growing topics are Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0011% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

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Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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