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Intersectional feminism centres the voices of those experiencing overlapping, concurrent forms of oppression in order to understand the depths of the inequalities and the relationships among them in any given context.
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Intersectionality means that these issues are recognised and fought for in an inclusive and more powerful way. In the 35 years since Crenshaw coined the term, feminist...
Coined by Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989, the term intersectionality has become the key analytic framework through which feminist scholars in various fields talk about the structural identities of race, class, gender, and sexuality.
Feminist NGO advocates consider themselves to be the intersectionality experts—and thus legitimate “representatives” of women experiencing intersecting inequalities—a view echoed among gender equality policymakers, as will be evidenced through our empirical data below.
In feminist theory, intersectionality has become the predominant way of conceptualizing the relation between systems of oppression which construct our multiple identities and our social locations in hierarchies of power and privilege.
This Resource Guide and Toolkit emerged from an identi-fied need to use an intersectional approach that included people with disabilities in all their diversity in the devel-opment, implementation and evaluation of policies, programmes, advocacy and inter-governmental pro-cesses.
Within the specific context of gender and development scholarship, the focus on intersectionality emerged from multifaceted critiques of Western Feminism as ethnocentric ‘intellectual imperialism’ (Steyn Citation 1998) and as a monolithic discourse and practice (Peake and Trotz Citation 2002).
