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	Queer Methodology	Intersectionality Analysis
Field	Gender Studies	Gender Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2010	1989
Originator	Kath Browne, Catherine J. Nash, Jack Halberstam	Kimberlé Crenshaw
Type	Critical anti-normative research methodology	Critical qualitative analytic framework
Seminal source	Browne, K., & Nash, C. J. (Eds.) (2010). Queer Methods and Methodologies: Intersecting Queer Theories and Social Science Research. Ashgate, Surrey. ISBN: 9780754678434	Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics, and violence against women of color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241–1299.
Aliases	Queer Methods, Queer Research Methodology	Intersectional Analysis, Intersectionality Framework, Intersectional Qualitative Analysis
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Summary	Queer methodology is less a fixed technique than a critical stance toward research that disrupts taken-for-granted categories of sex, gender, and sexuality and resists the assumption that identities are stable, knowable, and countable. Articulated for the social sciences in Kath Browne and Catherine Nash's Queer Methods and Methodologies (2010) and prefigured in Jack Halberstam's notion of a 'scavenger' methodology, it asks not 'what is the right method?' but 'how does research itself reproduce normativity?' — and licenses researchers to borrow and combine methods rhizomatically in order to attend to fluidity, ambiguity, and the very production of the normal.	Intersectionality analysis is a critical qualitative framework that examines how multiple social categories — such as race, gender, class, sexuality, and disability — intersect and operate together to shape lived experience, advantage, and disadvantage. Coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989 and 1991, it rejects single-axis analysis that treats categories one at a time, insisting instead that overlapping systems of power produce qualitatively distinct positions that cannot be understood by adding the categories separately.