Intersectionality: An underutilized but essential theoretical framework for social psychology

The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Social Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 507-529

  Bowleg, Lisa ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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