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Intersections

Intersections - Laurie Taylor explores the ways in which violence impacts some people more than others. Also, female migrant domestic workers.

Intersections - Laurie Taylor talks to world-renowned, Black feminist scholar, Patricia Hill Collins, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Maryland and author of a new study looking at how violence differentially affects people according to their sex, class, sexuality, nationality, and ethnicity. These invisible workings of overlapping power relations give rise to what she terms 'lethal intersections,' where the risk of death is much greater for some than others. Drawing on a rich tapestry of cases she asks us to think about what counts as violence today and what can be done about it.

They鈥檙e joined by Joyce Jiang, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the University of York, whose latest research examines abuses against female migrant domestic workers in the UK which include long working hours, harsh working conditions, but also verbal, physical and sexual abuses.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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29 minutes

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Mon 30 Oct 2023 00:15
主播大秀 Radio 4

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Guests and further reading

Patricia Hill Collins, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Maryland聽
Lethal Intersections: Race, Gender, and Violence (Polity Press) by Patricia Hill Collins.

Joyce Jiang, Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at the University of York
Book chapter 鈥樷�� in edited by聽 Parveen Ali and Michaela M. Rogers (Springer)

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  • Wed 25 Oct 2023 16:00
    主播大秀 Radio 4
  • Mon 30 Oct 2023 00:15
    主播大秀 Radio 4

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