Intersectionality

Intersectionality is a conceptual tool used primarily for analyzing key differences in various environments and situations. Feminists use this term to critically analyze the patterns of oppression that interlock with multiple identities, such as social inequality in its complex forms. Bromley, in her writing, explains that the societal categories that define one 's identity and status quo further enables the development of hierarchies, and unearned privilege. Identity markers such as gender, sex…

1. Intersectionality Intersectionality is a framework that acknowledges the multiplicity of identities in marginalized people. It is an awareness of how multiple systems of power act simultaneously on marginalized people: a person’s identities (their race, class, sexuality, gender, age, ability, etc.) are not separate – they are intertwined. Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term in her 1989 essay “Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex,” and she expands on it in her 1993 essay “mapping…

interconnecting formations of oppression regarding race, gender, and class. This represents a macro level connection linking system of oppression. Intersectionality represents a micro level processes, which is how individuals and groups both inhabit a social situation within interconnecting formations of oppression, which is defined as a metaphor of intersectionality. If it be race, gender, or class everyone has a specific identity. Each individual is either contributing to oppression, as an…

19th Amendment and Title IV were passed giving women equality, however society would beg to differ. Society continues to oppress and control women and minorities, not through the use of laws. Rather, through different forms of media, privilege, intersectionality, patriarchy, and institutions to name a few. Women today legally have the same rights and opportunities as men but there are factors that continue to oppress them. Feminist. That one simple word is full of ideas and emotions. When most…

The Secret Life of Bees is a film that had many different themes and symbols revolving around women empowerment, racism, intersectionality, and loss. I like the film because it had showcased the lives of black women in particular in the 1960s. It presented a different outlook on how racism and discrimination was for not just the black man, but the strong independent black woman living in the white man’s world. According to Josie Pickens, we live in “ A nation literally built for white men,…

Kimberlé Crenshaw is credited with introducing intersectionality to feminism in the 1980s. Crenshaw, uses intersectionality to describe overlapping issues, “social justice problems like racism and sexism are often overlapping, creating multiple levels of social injustice” (Crenshaw). In a 2016 TED talk, Crenshaw shared the story of her client, Emma DeGraffenreid. DeGraffenreid believed she had not been hired at an automobile manufacturing plant because she was a Black woman. The judge who heard…

Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Sudan) - Choo, HY and Ferree, MM 2010, ‘Practicing Intersectionality in Sociological Research: a Critical Analysis of Inclusions, Interactions, and Institutions in the Study of Inequalities’ The authors mentioned about the inequality of women with color, white women, black and white men, and show that oppression is not the singular process of inequality. Inequality in intersectionality approach refers to the interaction between gender, race, and other categories of…

One of my quick writes was on September 14. In Renee Engel's book “Beauty sickness” I was assigned to read chapter 8 (Anti)Social Media and Online. This chapter was about how social media changed the way we get ready every day and we find things that we don’t like about our bodies because we want to look like ideal body and face. She mentions that “This shows how some girls decides to take pictures, but they edit them because they don’t like the way they look. Girls use several apps to edit…

female self-aggrandizement” (Launius and Hassel, Threshold Concepts, 117). Thus, Black feminist believe that they have different experiences than white women and so they need to articulate their own theory. This is where the term intersectionality was created. Intersectionality recognize that a person can experience both privilege and oppression at the same time and in different ways. In this case,…

movies, even though it is Korean, is Train to Busan. Even though it is a Korean movie, Train to Busan shows the same themes of masculinity and femininity that are shown in the United States and how intersectionality can affect every part of life. The themes of femininity have to be…