Gasser, Nathalie (2026). Religion, Intersektionalität und Agency in Bildungsbiografien. GENDER – Zeitschrift für Geschlecht, Kultur und Gesellschaft, 18 (2), pp. 41-55 Budrich Journals. 10.3224/gender.v18i2.04

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This article analyses a case study from an ethnographic investigation of the educational trajectories of young, religiously oriented Muslim women in German-speaking Switzerland to exemplify the theoretical links between religion, intersectionality and agency in educational biographies. Taking this perspective makes it possible to reveal both structural constraints and subjective processes of appropriation while avoiding reductionist readings that reduce actors to mere victims. It demonstrates, from an intersectional perspective, how educational trajectories are shaped by intersecting processes of religious marking, gendering, class positioning and migrantization. At the same time, an agency-oriented reading makes it clear that agency need not necessarily be understood as resistance but can be seen as situational navigation within pre-structured spaces of possibilities through which small shifts can open new educational pathways. The case study thus serves as a theory-driven analysis that demonstrates the analytical productivity of linking intersectionality to an expanded concept of agency.

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