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We are delight to report the publication of the latest article by Lara Maestripieri by Frontiers in Sociology:

The Covid-19 Pandemics: why Intersectionality Matters

 

This article argues that an intersectional framework allows an understanding of what is occurring in the current pandemic, both in terms of its social determinants and social consequences. To open the black box of inequality, intersectional scholars analyze the intersections of multiple structures of inequalities (such as gender, age, class, ethnicity), which have a multiplying effect when disadvantaged positions intersect in the same individual. Covid-19 is a clear example of an intersectional phenomenon: the impact of individual and community exposure to Covid-19 is the results of multiple and interrelating structures of inequality. Up to now, research in social sciences has underestimated the role of intersectionality in analyzing the social and economic consequences of this pandemic.

The article is available at the following link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2021.642662/full