Intersectionality

Slur words are words of oppression; they have held the power to objectify, humiliate and deny rights to undeserving individuals of minority groups for much too long. They are tools used by oppressors against their victims, and they carry out the exact functions they expect them to. Slurs objectify, humiliate, degrade and shame. Recently, attempts have been made to shed slurs of their power. Many conflicting beliefs surrounding the proper handling of slur words exist. I personally believe that…

Paulo Freire goes in depth on what he calls the Banking Concept of Education. The thesis of the Banking Concept is “The contents, whether values or empirical dimensions of reality, tend in the process of being narrated to become lifeless and petrified.” I agree with Freire because school should not be about just memorization. Education needs to be a healthy relationship between pupil and teacher. Freire goes into detail about how the students are the containers and the teachers are the…

Discrimination against women is most likely the most subtle and ubiquitous kind of discrimination humans have against a particular group. Three aspects of the oppression of women usually include them as fantasies for men, women as the sex that drives men insane, and what the “ideal” woman should be. In the downtown Museum of Modern Art, one painting displays these three aspects of the repression of the natural woman: The Seed of Areoi, painted by the French artist Paul Gauguin on burlap material…

At Belsize she is treated like an invalid and most of the patients there are women who were in hospital for very strange reasons and not because they had an illness. One lady was there because her “husband knows [she] can’t stand her [mother-in-law]” this confirms the oppressiveness of the McCarthyite period and how women who did not conform to the ways of society will get punished in severe ways (179). However, Esther does try and make friends with the other people, but the hospital staff…

In the excerpt The Social Construction of Gender by Judith Lorber, she explained how gender is a part of a structured system and how it is also maintained as a process. Judith Lorber concluded her excerpt by stating that gender equality “is produced and maintained by identifiable social process and built into the general social structure and individual identities” (67). In Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins, she explained how Black women were considered oppressed because of their…

Language is meant to bring people together. To allow peoples to share ideas, to cultivate ideas; To make humanity equal to God. In the biblical tale of “The Tower of Babel”, the ability of humanity to speak one language allowed them to be closer to God, to achieve a God-like status, but in the end humanity was struck down and cursed to speak a plethora of languages, dividing us so we could never threaten that primordial power. But for a tool which once, supposedly, allowed to us to reach God,…

ITEM 1: In thinking about Sonia Sanchez words as a call to resist opression it’s been important for me to think about the connections between the ‘educated class’ and meritocracy. I want to use how Christopher Hayes looks into Meritocracy as being based on two assumptions: the principle of difference , and the principle of mobility. These often implicit assumptions place people into hirarchiarcal system according to ‘merit’. While mobility and difference place differnet values on those at…

An Overview of Sociology 131 PART I (SUMMARY) Intersectionality: Intersectionality, is “we are not just men or women. We are a white, middleclass, married woman-once catholic, now Evangelical Christian- with a two year old…”(Wade & Ferree, 2015,84). My favorite thing about this is the idea of belonging to multiple groups. The reason is because I can now have many shared experiences. For example I know the struggles of being a woman and the struggles of being non-white. I know the culture…

I have chosen to write about intersectionality, a study introduced to contemporary feminist theory by Kimberle W. Crenshaw. The study consists of “various ways in which race and gender intersect in shaping structural, political and representational aspects of violence against women of color etc. Structural intersectionality in regards to racism contributes to the silence of violence; as in the issue raised regarding the marriage fraud provision of the Immigration and Nationalities act. This act…

This paper will provide a profile of the key concept of Intersectionality. It will begin by providing a definition of the concept, and subsequently proceed to consider how Intersectionality challenges the normative understanding of gender. It will then discuss the necessity for Intersectionality to intervene into current debates about gender, more specifically, within the debate of gender-based violence. Intersectionality can be defined as the various axes of discrimination, such as racism and…