Though these terms have become commonplace over the last few years, “intersectionality” was first coined more than 30 years ago by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, as a relatively obscure ...

Thanks to all of you for such a profound gift of your time, reflection and presence. Powerful lived-experience storytelling by Professor Kimberle Crenshaw to inform and challenge our thinking about ...

Since Kimberlé Crenshaw proposed in 1991 that the intersectionality between race and social class generates different experiences for women who are victims of domestic abuse, considerable theory and, ...

Kimberlé Crenshaw defines intersectionality as ‘a way of seeing, thinking and acting’, thus raising the problem of the transferability of the concept to other oppressions. If intersectionality does ...

Her groundbreaking work on "Intersectionality" has traveled globally and was influential in the drafting of the equality clause in the South African Constitution. In 1996, Crenshaw co-founded the ...

NEW YORK (JTA) — Thirty years ago, Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality as a way to help explain the oppression of African-American women. The theory of how different forms of ...

Coined in 1989 by professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, the term intersectionality helped highlight the ways in which people are often disadvantaged by multiple sources of oppression: their race, class, gender ...

There are unresolved questions concerning how it can be conceptualized (Choo & Ferree, 2010), operationalized in sociological research (McCall, 2005; Strid, Walby, and Armstrong, 2013), and put to ...

This was a term coined by American academic Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989. Intersectionality refers to the complex, ...