Article Dans Une Revue French Politics Année : 2024

Incorporating disability within intersectional analysis: general challenges and French specificities

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While intersectional theory has gained significant attention, disability remains rarely addressed, particularly in France. This article first underscores two primary challenges in intersecting disability with social class, gender, or race: resolving definitional obstacles to designate “disability” as a hierarchical system, and evaluating the theoretical significance of treating this system alongside those traditionally studied. The prevalent focus on class-like mechanisms in French research hampers the acknowledgment of disability alongside other analytical categories. I then categorize the existing literature into four significant areas of research, inspired by McCall (Signs 30:1771–1800, 2005): inequalities concerning impairments and functional limitations (pre-categorical approach); social influences on diagnoses and disability recognition (anti-categorical approach); targeted situations of disabled groups (intra-categorical approach); and processes generating inequalities across multiple hierarchical systems (inter-categorical approach). Finally, I outline five avenues for future research.

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hal-04830051 , version 1 (17-11-2025)

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Célia Bouchet. Incorporating disability within intersectional analysis: general challenges and French specificities. French Politics, 2024, ⟨10.1057/s41253-024-00270-3⟩. ⟨hal-04830051⟩
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