DEFINITION: INTERSECTIONALITY
(Conspiracy Theory)(Conspiritualism) (Anti-Darwinian)
Intersectionality, also referred to as intersectional feminism, is a branch of feminism which identifies how different aspects of social and political discrimination overlap with gender. The term was coined by black feminist scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw in 1989.
It is a non-empirical qualitative analytic framework that identifies how interlocking systems of power affect those who are most marginalized in society.
There are various forms of social stratification, such as class, race, sexual orientation, age, religion, creed, disability and gender, which are included in the consideration of intersectional feminism and its social and cultural effects.
The purpose of intersectionality is to identify that these forms of discrimination are related to one another, and take these relationships into account when working to promote social and political equity.
While the theory began as an exploration of the oppression of women of color within society, today the analysis has expanded to include many more aspects of social identity.
Intersectionality may also be related to the term triple oppression, which engages with similar themes.
Critics have pointed out that intersectionality relies entirely on non-objective concepts such as “systems of power” which themselves lack a material reality, and therefore empirical basis for study, making it an ideological set of ideas, and not a proper sociological concept.
(See “Conspiratualism” at: https://www.facebook.com/curt.doolittle/posts/10157386088187264)