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Lamyia Walters has been cooperative but very deceitful when describing her relationship status and domestic abuse issues. She has had consistent contact with the caseworker since case opening. Lamyia switches from hostile to apologetic with worker daily. Lamyia continues to provide different explanations for the reasons the children were brought into care. These explanations often completely contradict one another. When this is brought to Lamyia’s attention, she begins screaming at worker,…

inclusionist view exists. There is such a thing as an inclusionist feminism vision, one that strives to include women of all race, age, size, sexuality, and gender expression, though this vision is not currently implemented in mainstream feminism. Kimberle Crenshaw describes what an inclusionist feminist vision should be when talking about intersectionality. Peggy McIntosh, Naomi Wolf, and Audre Lorde all respectively write about how most feminist movements ignore factors that set many women…

“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…

In light of the uniqueness of being a black woman in America Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term “Intersectionality” in the late 1980s. Recently, as the keynote speaker at WOW – Women of the World festival 2016, Professor Crenshaw gave a brief summary of Intersectionality; it’s inception and definition. WOW’s, “mission is to champion gender equality, celebrating the achievements of women and girls everywhere and examining the obstacles that keep them from fulfilling their potential.”…

Based on the views expressed by McNicoll (1984), World Bank (1984), and National Research Council (1986 cited in Kelley, 1988), I argue that the underdevelopment of Africa (as measured by per capita output) is caused by rapid population expansion. The negative effects of rapid population's growth on economic growth and development occurred in situations where arable land and water becomes scarce or costly to acquire, rights to land and natural resources are poorly defined, and government…

experience racism. Facing both make it a hard intersection for many colored women. She states how women of color not only face discrimination by the members of our society but our justice system turns a blind eye to cases that involve women of color. Crenshaw shares a story about a Latina who was in a abusive relationship and a shelter would not take her and her son in because she was illiterate but the son was willing to translate for her. She shows the problems that women face because that…

As a young black woman from New York City I do not consider myself to be a feminist. Growing up what I believed feminist fought for has now changed. I though Feminist look pass social and moral gender roles and believe that men and woman should be treated equally. Based on this idea of feminism I obtained from writing 220 and though conversation with friends I no longer can believe that all feminist women take the time to look pass social and moral gender roles in order to create equality. If…

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…

debate of gender-based violence. Intersectionality can be defined as the various axes of discrimination, such as racism and class oppression, which intersect to result in additional marginalisation of individuals who fall within such junctures (Crenshaw 2015; Gleeson 2017; Schuster 2016). Although Intersectionality was initially articulated to describe the overlapping marginalisation…

The concept of intersectionality “is the insight that different forms of inequality should not be analyzed separate and distinct from each other, but instead as interacting or intersecting with each other” (Smiet, 2015, p. 10). In order to understand fully the experiences of marginalized groups, there must be an examination of the intersection of race, gender, class, religion, and sexual orientation (Schramm-Pate, 2017). During the 19th century, the abolition and suffrage movements excluded…