WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Intersectionality, Visible Minority

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Women's and Gender Studies
• Course: WGST 1808
• Professor: Debra Graham

Document Summary

Intersectionality: framework for women"s status, women"s rights issues. Analyzes identity formation and social positions as relational and it makes visible the multiple positioning that constitutes everyday life and the power relations that are central to it. The term was coined in 1989 by american critical legal race scholar kimberle. Multiple axes of di erentiation: categories that are analyzed, intersect in historically speci c con icts. Analysis of the individual is integrated with institutional/system analysis. Members within a category are diverse (can"t make assumptions about independent members of the social category) A dynamic interaction exists between individual and institutional factors (fb friends vs. friends you see in public) Examples of places in society where we need to introduce equity: women earn 71-75 cents for every dollar earned by men visible minority women earn 17% less that non-visible minority women women do more part-time and unpaid work.