Kimberle Williams Crenshaw Intersectionality Theory

Drawing upon lecture, intersectionality is a feminist theory in response to white women feminism not making space for women of color. In the early 60’s, the women’s movement was only coming from a white perspective in The Feminine Mystique and there was a problem that had no name, which was the boredom white women faced when they stayed at home while their husbands were at work. However, this did not resonate with women of color because they were tirelessly taking care of these white women’s children and could not raise their opinion due to being underprivileged. These white women were not taking account of how there were different races that were even further oppress. Therefore, women of color experienced womanhood differently than white females. As a result, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw writes a legal theory in the …show more content…
This is known as intersectionality where white females have certain privilege, such as having access to those services where women of color do not. Therefore, being a white women is different from being black, and being a black poor women is different from a rich black women. Intersectionality is an idea where categories, such as your age, sex, gender, and class comes to together so that you would fall within a social hierarchy and it’s what people have of you. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw and Patricia Hill Collins believes that these categories works together and determines the kind of power and privilege one has. It is almost like you take your gender, add it to your class and race, and you have your own oppression portion and it is different from everyone else. In addition to Crenshaw’s theory of intersectionality, Collins talks about the matrix of oppression, which is a multi-dimensional space, where it situates people with others based on race, wealth, class and