In a political climate in which policy protections for marginalized groups face significant threats, this book delivers a hopeful message for practitioners, engaged scholars, and concerned individuals alike: skilled advocates have successfully carved policy infrastructures and adeptly used existing policy tools to forge policy victories on the behalf of intersectionally marginalized populations despite various political obstacles. In her book, Margaret Perez Brower expertly reveals how a group of policy innovators she calls “intersectional advocates” have fundamentally altered policy infrastructures in federal, state, and local governments. These advocates have reconfigured policies to reflect the lived experiences of women at the margins who are most impacted. Examining the four reauthorization cycles of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) over the span of 25 years, Brower demonstrates how advocates from organizations representing women marginalized across more than one identity category (particularly by race/ethnicity and class) pushed policymakers to develop issue linkages between gender-based violence and issues such as welfare, tribal rights, and immigration by identifying and crafting policy infrastructures within the VAWA to house these issue linkages. This form of advocacy is novelly advanced by Brower as “intersectional advocacy” not onl