Within our society women have fought hard to gain equal rights and recognition. Beginning with the right to vote in the 1920’s, to holding lead roles in the media and honorable positions in politics, and now fighting for equal wages amongst genders. Women are now becoming a powerful symbol for the new generation from having strong celebrities and activist define what is means to be a feminist and what feminism really is. Many women in pop culture are empowering those all over to take a stand and break the mold of what a women “should be” like Beyonce, Emma Watson and even Barbie. In the recent years the term feminist/feminism has became more of a household term and pop culture is to help with that. Many celebrities have contributed in many
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“Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power” (Crenshaw 2015). This term shows how different forms of discrimination can interact and overlap one another and cause those who are being marginalized to stay oppress and those with privilege to rise. Originally it focused on race and gender and in the case of Professor Crenshaw her identities that intersect would be that she is a black woman. But throughout the years intersectionality has broadened to encompass other social factors.
First-Wave feminism was a period in time that focused on legal issues pertaining to women. This was a moment in the late 19th century and early 20th century that worked hard to gain the right for women to vote also known as women’s suffrage (Professor Anderson). Although, this movement was for women it excluded women of color and labor workers. “Intersectional feminism makes an active efforts to include all women. It is anti-racism, anti-classism, anti-ableism, body-positive, inclusive of LGBTQ+ folks, and a celebration of all forms of gender expression” (Sathish …show more content…
On the show there is a young lady by the name of Ashley Darby, who is a 27 year old woman, she is biracial and living in a wealthy community with her 56 year old Australian husband. Unlike many of the women on the show she was not born into wealth, she was actually born in Maryland and lived with her single mother and younger siblings and had to work many jobs “to keep both her and her family financially stable” (BravoTv). Within the show she is constantly being oppressed by the other women who are older and were born into wealth. She is an example of intersectionality because the oppressors attack her for being young which is a form of ageism, being biracial which is a form of racism, and not being from Potomac which is a form of classism. This example demonstrates that intersectionality does not always and only have to be in the form of gender and race but can be in the form of class, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, nationality and other identities. All of Ashley 's identities intersect to form who she is but also her perceptive of the world and how the world treats her, in this case how the women of Potomac treat her (Sathish
“Intersectionality is an analytic sensibility, a way of thinking about identity and its relationship to power” (Crenshaw 2015). This term shows how different forms of discrimination can interact and overlap one another and cause those who are being marginalized to stay oppress and those with privilege to rise. Originally it focused on race and gender and in the case of Professor Crenshaw her identities that intersect would be that she is a black woman. But throughout the years intersectionality has broadened to encompass other social factors.
First-Wave feminism was a period in time that focused on legal issues pertaining to women. This was a moment in the late 19th century and early 20th century that worked hard to gain the right for women to vote also known as women’s suffrage (Professor Anderson). Although, this movement was for women it excluded women of color and labor workers. “Intersectional feminism makes an active efforts to include all women. It is anti-racism, anti-classism, anti-ableism, body-positive, inclusive of LGBTQ+ folks, and a celebration of all forms of gender expression” (Sathish …show more content…
On the show there is a young lady by the name of Ashley Darby, who is a 27 year old woman, she is biracial and living in a wealthy community with her 56 year old Australian husband. Unlike many of the women on the show she was not born into wealth, she was actually born in Maryland and lived with her single mother and younger siblings and had to work many jobs “to keep both her and her family financially stable” (BravoTv). Within the show she is constantly being oppressed by the other women who are older and were born into wealth. She is an example of intersectionality because the oppressors attack her for being young which is a form of ageism, being biracial which is a form of racism, and not being from Potomac which is a form of classism. This example demonstrates that intersectionality does not always and only have to be in the form of gender and race but can be in the form of class, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, nationality and other identities. All of Ashley 's identities intersect to form who she is but also her perceptive of the world and how the world treats her, in this case how the women of Potomac treat her (Sathish