Dear Colleagues,

Peoples’ sexual and reproductive health is influenced by different factors and at multiple levels. Nevertheless, scientific evidence regarding the social, cultural and structural factors influencing sexual and reproductive health within an intersectional approach to gender, age, class, and race/ethnicity is still missing. The examination of various social interactions at the local, national and global levels are of extreme importance to understand continuity and change in sexual and reproductive health and rights frames. Ensuring the needs, experiences and expectations of most marginalized groups are taken into consideration is one way of contributing to address disparities in realizing gender equality and sexual and reproductive health and rights, leaving no one behind. Papers are expected to contribute to the growing body of knowledge based on the frameworks of justice and equity, and intersectionality, and enable us to envision a society in which power and privileges are redistributed. We encourage new ways of thinking about how sexual and reproductive health link with gender, age, class, nationality, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, mental or physical ability, or other status or modes of social belonging. We welcome original and review articles based on a comprehensive systematic search of the literature from different research fields that engage these issues based on empirical studies and/or theoretical analysis. We invite papers that integrate intersectionality and power relations to reveal meaningful distinctions and similarities to overcome discriminations and enable all people to fully enjoy their sexual and reproductive rights.

Dr. Violeta Alarcão
Dr. Sónia Cardoso Pintassilgo
Dr. Pedro Candeias
Guest Editors

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• health equity
• gender equality
• intersectionality
• sexual and reproductive health and rights