Intersectionality is a sociological analytical framework for understanding how groups' and individuals' social and political identities result in unique combinations of discrimination and privilege.

2024年12月20日 · intersectionality, in social theory, the interaction and cumulative effects of multiple forms of discrimination affecting the daily lives of individuals, particularly women of color.

Intersectionality examines how a person’s identities, such as their gender, ethnicity, and sexuality, affect their access to opportunities and privileges. First coined in 1989, the theory has since been applied to employment, housing, healthcare, and so on.

Intersectionality is how multiple identities interact to create unique patterns of oppression. Originally coined by American scholar and lawyer Kimberle Crenshaw, who drew inspiration from Black feminist movements in the US, the term highlights how race, gender, class, and other factors are interconnected.

1 天前 · What Does “Intersectionality” Mean? We all hold different identities, whether we are talking about our race, ethnicity, gender, nationality, sexuality, socioeconomic status, and many (many) more.Intersectionality refers to how all those individual identities mix and mingle with each other and the people around us, and how that in turn impacts and creates unique forms of …

Intersectional theory views the categories of intersecting relations such as race, gender, social class, sexuality, ability, and age as interrelated and mutually shaping one another.

Intersectionality promotes an understanding of human beings as shaped by the interaction of different social locations (e.g., ‘race’/ethnicity, Indige-neity, gender, class, sexuality, geography, age, disability/ability, migration status, religion). These …

2019年10月12日 · Intersectionality refers to the simultaneous experience of categorical and hierarchical classifications including but not limited to race, class, gender, sexuality, and nationality.

2023年11月19日 · Intersectionality acts a lens in order to understand how race and gender work in unison as forms of oppression. Recognition will be the first step. And once that is able to occur, hopefully significant change will appear.

BackgroundThe Special Rapporteur’s report to the 59th session of Human Rights Council will examine and analyse the topic of intersectionality from a racial justice perspective. The concept of intersectionality emerged from the work of Black feminists and other social movements led by marginalised communities working globally. Feminist and critical race scholar Kimberly …