intersectionality

• concept of intersectionality arose in the late 1980s and is associated with third-wave feminism.
• criticised previous forms of feminism for ignoring black and working-class women’s experiences of patriarchy
• Kimberlé Crenshaw, when showing how black women were oſten marginalised by both feminist and anti-racist movements because their concerns did not fit comfortably within either group. She argued in 2015 that intersectionality ‘has given many advocates a way to frame their circumstances and to fight for their visibility and inclusion’