As evidenced by State of Missouri v. Celia, progressive legislation that appear to reduce gender oppression often covertly ignores racial oppression, papering over the needs and unique struggles of women of color. She provides the example of the shift of the Renaissance expectation of women and the Victorian expectation of women noting that these shifts in the western paradigm of women rarely spilled down to affect women of color, allowing for guises of progress and change to obscure the disproportionately distributed freedoms that eluded women of
As evidenced by State of Missouri v. Celia, progressive legislation that appear to reduce gender oppression often covertly ignores racial oppression, papering over the needs and unique struggles of women of color. She provides the example of the shift of the Renaissance expectation of women and the Victorian expectation of women noting that these shifts in the western paradigm of women rarely spilled down to affect women of color, allowing for guises of progress and change to obscure the disproportionately distributed freedoms that eluded women of