15 Facts About Intersectionality

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Intersectionality is an analytical framework for understanding how aspects of a person's social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege.

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Intersectionality is a qualitative analytic framework developed in the late 20th century that identifies how interlocking systems of power affect those who are most marginalized in society.

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Intersectionality opposes analytical systems that treat each axis of oppression in isolation.

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Intersectionality engages in similar themes as triple oppression, which is the oppression associated with being a poor or immigrant woman of color.

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Intersectionality originated in critical race studies and entails the interconnection of gender and race .

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Intersectionality is relative because it displays how race, gender, and other components operate as one to shape the experiences of others.

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Intersectionality's noted that as second-wave feminism receded in the 1980s, feminists of color such as Audre Lorde, Gloria E Anzaldua and Angela Davis entered academic environments and brought their perspectives to their scholarship.

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Intersectionality recognizes these issues which were ignored by early social justice movements.

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Intersectionality's says that white women are often treated as emotional and delicate while black women are subjected to racist abuse.

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Intersectionality can be applied to nearly all fields from politics, education healthcare, and employment, to economics.

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Intersectionality's rejects the western feminist theory, especially when it writes about global women of color and generally associated "third world women".

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Intersectionality's argues that "third world women" are often thought of as a homogenous entity, when, in fact, their experience of oppression is informed by their geography, history, and culture.

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Intersectionality's uses this approach to develop a framework that can analyze gender inequalities across different nations and differentiates this from an approach which, one, paints national-level inequalities as the same and, two, differentiates only between the global North and South.

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Intersectionality's refers to different nat-cult groups that produce different types of feminisms.

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Intersectionality accused advocates of intersectionality of playing into the hands of Islamism.

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