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Gender and Intersectionality

Kimberle Williams Crenshaw: What is Intersectional Feminism?
Kimberle Crenshaw, professor of law at UCLA and Columbia and an authority on Critical Race Theory and Civil Rights, walks us through a brief history of feminism, race, and class in the United States. Women & Power 2007: Women, Power & Peace.
Gkiouleka, H. (2018). Understanding the micro and macro politics of health: Inequalities, intersectionality & institutions - A research agenda. Social Science & Medicine (1982), 200, 92–98.
This essay brings together intersectionality and institutional approaches to health inequalities, suggesting an integrative analytical framework that accounts for the complexity of the intertwined influence of both individual social positioning and institutional stratification on health. This essay therefore advances the emerging scholarship on the relevance of intersectionality to health inequalities research.
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What Is Intersectionality? | Queer 101 | The Advocate

The Advocate's Video Producer Ashley Jiang tells us the intricacies of intersectionality.

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Hankivsky, O. (2012). Women’s health, men’s health, and gender and health: Implications of intersectionality. Social Science & Medicine, 74(11), 1712–1720.
Although intersectionality is now recognized in the context of women’s health, men’s health, and gender and health, its full implications for research, policy, and practice have not yet been interrogated. This paper investigates, from an intersectionality perspective, the common struggles ...
What is Intersectionality? Breaking through Activist Jargon
Reg Flowers continues in the pursuit of a vegan lifestyle while wrestling with life at the intersection of radical, queer and a person of color. This series delves deep into the underlying values and prejudices of the vegan doctrine. This video hopes to provide a simple definition for the term Intersectionality.

The urgency of intersectionality | Kimberlé Crenshaw

Now more than ever, it's important to look boldly at the reality of race and gender bias -- and understand how the two can combine to create even more harm. Kimberlé Crenshaw uses the term "intersectionality" to describe this phenomenon; as she says, if you're standing in the path of multiple forms of exclusion, you're likely to get hit by both. In this moving talk, she calls on us to bear witness to this reality and speak up for victims of prejudice.

Women, Race, & Class by Davis, Angela Y
Publication Date: 2011
A powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the U.S., from abolitionist days to the present, that demonstrates how it has always been hampered by the racist and classist biases of its leaders. From the widely revered and legendary political activist and scholar Angela Davis.

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Crenshaw, K. (1991). Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color. Stanford Law Review, 43(6), 1241–1299.
The race and gender dimensions of violence against women of color are explored. The ways in which the experiences of women of color are frequently the product of intersecting patterns of racism and sexism and how these experiences tend not to be represented within the discourses of either feminism or antiracism are discussed.

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Hall, C. (2016). Marginalization: A Revisitation With Integration of Scholarship on Globalization, Intersectionality, Privilege, Microaggressions, and Implicit Biases. Advances in Nursing Science, 39(3), 200–215.
In 1994, the concept of marginalization was explored in an article in Advances in Nursing Science. This is a revisitation of the concept incorporating new scholarship. This update is founded on feminism, postcolonialism, critical race theory, and discourse deconstruction, all viewpoints that have been explicated in nursing. ...