Kimberle Crenshaw's Mapping The Margins: Intersectionality,

In Kimberle Crenshaw’s Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color, she discusses a few things that really left an impact on me. Her views on violence against women of colour, structural intersectionality, and domestic violence and anti – racial politics; leads me to believe that feminism has helped me in ways I do not fully know. One of Crenshaw’s theme within her writing is that women of colour are subjected to an inferior position which is created solely based off race and gender. Because of this, they are more vulnerable to violence. In 1983 domestic violence was made illegal in Canada however, at first it only benifited women of social, political, and racial dominance, white women. Contemporary feminist never took intersectional identities into consideration. Crenshaw goes on to say, “Focusing on two dimensions of male violence against women – battering and rape – I consider how …show more content…
The act did not help women who migrated because they do not meet the requirements of the waiver. This baffled me because it is ironic that it does not help the people that migrate but more so women that are socially, economically, or poltically privileged, meaning white women. Some of the requirements for the waiver were; “… can include, but is not limited to, reports and affidavits from police, medical personnel, psychologists, school officials, and social service agencies” (1248). These services are hard for women who are immergrants because of many obstacles. One, they do not even know they exist; two, there may be a language barrier making the services unavaible, three, they may know about everything, speak the language but fear for their life or the lives of their children. From violence towards with colour, to intersectionality, [author name] navigates to domestic violence tied with anti – racial