INTERSECTIONALITY IN PRACTICE According to Valentine (2007), feminist geography studies tend to look at intersectional types of issues which limit their analyses to the relationship between particular identities such as class or gender rather than addressing the full implications of the above theorisation of intersectionality (Valentine 2007, 14). The reason behind narrowing the scope of empirical work is due to the complexity of intersectionality itself. Valentine further argued that researching
CONCEPT OF INTERSECTIONALITY According to Gill Valentine (2007), the concept of intersectionality is used by feminists within the wider social sciences to theorise the relationship between different social categories of race, gender, sexuality, age, and so on (Valentine 2007, 10). In Minow (1997) “Not only for myself: Identity, politics, and the law”, intersectionality is defined as “the way in which any particular individual stands at the crossroads of multiple groups” (quoted in Valentine 2007
The first order of business would be firstly to define ‘Intersectionality’ in order to gain a better understanding and grasp of the concept. ‘Intersectionality’ is a term that was first developed during the second wave of academic feminism during the 1970’s where women’s’ experience was at the forefront of Feminist thought according to Shields (2008). In 1989 Kimberle Crenshaw, an American Legal Scholar, did a study on ‘intersectionality’ in which she refers to an interaction between the different
The concept of intersectionality refers to the interdependence of multiple socially constructed categories and how they interact and shape different levels of social inequality, oppression or privilege. Through the analysis of multiple, and often complicated, intersections of
Intersectionality is a theory which illustrates various types of discrimination an individual face when their identities imbricate with a number of minority classes such as race, gender, age, ethnicity, and other characteristics. Intersectionality is defined as looking at the intersections of people's identities. It examines how women of different background experience oppression. The phrase intersectionality was first developed by Kimberle Crenshaw to explain the methods in which social identities
This study will draw from feminist media theory and African feminist media theory and it has also included the theory of intersectionality, these theories will be discussed below. Scholars of media and gender do not apply similar theoretical frameworks, there are options for applying various theories in various studies, although the medium of media being studied is the same. Previous scholars, Mannya (2010), Buiten (2009) and Katembo (2005) used various theories such as discourse theory, cultural
QUESTION 1 Intersectionality Definition Intersectionality is a sociological theory that defines a number of threats of discrimination when a person’s identity differs with several other minority groups including age, ethnicity, race, health, and so forth.( Hancock,2016). Intersectionality seeks to explain why these aspects of humanity cannot be separated and they are all related. For instance, a trans-woman of color may face discrimination in various capacities of her life, more so at work
Examine how intersectionality is being recognised as a valuable normative and research paradigm for furthering understandings of the complexity of gender heath inequities in Africa Intersectionality describes ways in which certain social identities such as race, ethnicity, gender and class affects an individual’s experience. These same categories are used to reflect systems of oppression and privilege. Intersectionality provides the context for understanding that people’s health cuts across many
the colonial texts produced by cisgendered, heterosexual white men. This essay aims to define what African feminism is as a theory, through various authors’ understanding of what African feminism is and this will be done using the concept of intersectionality in order to illustrate my own, along with other authors’ understanding of African Feminism. (Young, 2003: 3) argues that during the 19th century,
the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color expands on the multifaceted struggles of women of color and the generalizations ingrained in society that limit women of color and keep them in a box. In this text, Crenshaw builds on the concept of intersectionality which proposes that social categorizations such as gender and race are intertwined and have great influence on one another. She explains how the lack of awareness about intersectionality skews the data