Intersectionality

The client is insistent that Mr. Fahza continues to receive treatment, but may not be informing his father about the terminal nature of his diagnosis. Intersectionality In order to fully engage the client, a clinician has to first use an intersectional perspective to understand how the client’s different sections shape his experience. Intersectionality demonstrates that a client’s complete self must be taken into account in order to understand them (Cho, Crenshaw, & McCall, 2013). There are…

In “Intersectionality,” Dr. Vivian May includes leading feminist scholars’ definitions of the term intersectionality, as well as her interpretations of what the word signifies. May refers to intersectionality as a “consideration of marginalization regarding lived experience and social structure” (81). While, in a TED Talk, Dr. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw describes intersectionality as “oppressive institutions (like sexism and racism) overlapping and creating multiple levels of social injustice”…

In 1989 Kimberle Williams Crenshaw’s coined the term intersectionality (Cole, 2009). Sanchez-Hucles & Davis (2010) describe intersectionality as a systematic means for learning, understanding, and responding to how gender interconnects with other identities and how these connections add to the unique experiences of oppression and privilege. The key concept of intersectionality is based on the intersection between race, gender, class and other characteristics that…

Intersectionality is a theory that was coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in the late eighties. The term was created through her analysis. The analysis was of the two forms of violence that men commit against women. This combined with racism and sexism is what she terms intersectionality. The theory states that the various aspects of humanity do not exist separate from each other but rather are interwoven. These aspects are gender, race, sexual orientation, class, and disability. Systems of justice…

hardships African-Americans suffered during the civil rights. What was the struggle like for an African-American who “came out” during that period? No single category can encompass the identities of the LGBT community or any other culture. From an intersectionality perspective, human lives cannot be reduced to single categories, and policy analysis cannot assume that any one social category is most important for understanding people’s needs and experiences (Hankivsky,…

interactions could help us move up or down the social groups that we affiliate with, and improve our standards of living. My interpretation of intersectionality is that it affects relations between all manner of individuals and how they identify themselves. Whether you are black, white, or other, and whatever gender you may affiliate with, Intersectionality allows for assimilation of all of the characters that you may play. It also refers back to the dramaturgical prospective, where we have to…

how patriarchy sees gender and race. Intersectionality is a theory in which race, poverty and patriarchy work as one in the oppression on women. The kind of oppression these women have shapes them into a feminist that realizes and fights for those who experience the same issues. Those issues of race and patriarchy status make the women realize how gender and violence are created and fought for in their own way. There are several principals to Intersectionality, the first being there is…

Understanding intersectionality is something that is important in the practice of social work. One must be able to understand and deal with one’s clients and their specific positions in life and understand how all of their different identities and places in society interact with each other. However, before one can understand intersectionality in others, one must examine the different areas of one’s own life and how they interact to form a unique identity. I will examine my specific roles in life…

Intersectionality is one of the main concepts discussed in the reading. This is an important term to know when studying political, economic, and cultural systems present in Western society. Intersectionality is the critical examination of how a myriad of social identities overlap, shape and affect a person living in a neo-colonialist world. These social identities include race, gender, socio-economic status, sexuality, religion, and age. The intersection of social categories explains why certain…

Intersectionality-Race and Gender Relations In order to understand race, class, gender, and sexuality we must understand these ideas as individuals, and how they work as a collective. Intersectionality is using these components to discriminate against a group of people in more than one way. It’s important because it shows how a person can be discriminated against because of different factors, for example, Black women face both racism, and sexism. Understanding how intersectionality works is…