Intersectionality and Feminism: Understanding the Relationship

This report explores the concept of intersectionality and its usefulness in overcoming feminism. It discusses the different types of feminism, its history, and the impact of intersectionality on feminist perspectives. The report also highlights the influence of culture and postmodernism on feminism. A summary and discussion are included.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
What is intersectionality? Usefulness of intersectionality in overcoming feminism.............3
Feminism its history, origins and beginnings.........................................................................3
Differences in feminism and has intersectionality helped or changed...................................4
SUMMARY AND DISCUSION.....................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
Feminism is regarded as rights of the women in regards of the equality of the sexas.
Current report try to understand the concept of the same by highlighting the different type of the
feminism and going into the history in regards of how feminism has emerged and the way
Feminism has evolved in the recent times. Reports also try to fix the relationship between the
cultural influences on the same and also discuss the impact of intersectionality on the view point
of difference individual in the market in a long. In the end report summarize the variety of the
different sort of the learning gather from report.
MAIN BODY
What is intersectionality? Usefulness of intersectionality in overcoming feminism
Intersection is generally regarded as a framework in the which help in regarding
conceptualizing in a person, group of people affected by discrimination and disadvantages It
generally used to look at the people identity which is overlapping in order to understand the
complexity of variety of the issue which is faced by them in the organization. Feminism is
regarded as rights of the women in regards of the equality of the sexas Afshar, (1989). There are
variety of different type of feminism which is generally seen for the women, some of them are
Liberal Feminism, Radical feminism and Marxist feminism. Exploitation is the Liberal
Feminism utopia, it is the kind of feminism which generally ruins the reductive, sensationalist
and exploitation of gender equality which leads to collapse of larger structures underlying and
governing dynamic as two sex system. Liberal feminism is an individualistic form of feminist
theory which generally looks at focusing on ability of women to maintain good sort of equality
through their own action and choice. Radical feminism that calls for a reordering of society in
which male supremacy is eliminated in all the social and economy context in general. It is the
kind of the feminism in which all the men in generally try to dominate and oppress the women in
the society. Liberalism in the history is the belief in regards of the freedom, equality, democracy
and the human right. Liberalism is generally associated with the thinking of thinker John Locke
Collins, (1990).
Feminism its history, origins and beginnings
Feminism in the history is conventionally split into three different waves, which is
slightly different on the basis of the different aim and on the basis of the prior progress. 1 wave
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feminism was a period of the feminist in between 19 and 20 century this sort of the feminist
generally used to see legal issue, primary on securing the right of the different women to vote. 2
wave feminism is the period which occurs in between 1960 and 1980. This feminist used to
focuses equality and slogan. Slogan of Second wave is “The Personal is Political”. 3 wave of
feminism was brought to focuses on to the right to vote. This sort of feminism was in the late
19century with the passage of 19 amendments in the market. Feminism is not prevailing in one
of two nation, it is prevailing all over the globe. It has been identified that Sweden is the country
in which human feminism is the kind of the feminism which is prevailing in Sweden. France is
seeing Philosophical kind of feminism at the same time Italy is seeing Lesbian feminism. Black
feminism is a kind of feminism which was Emerged from the USA in the year 1980s Anthias
and Yuval-Davis, (1992). As it was identified that black women was not given the same value as
compare to the white women in the nation, this sort of thing in the market has given rise to the
Black feminism. Black Feminism was is a critique of 1 Feminism homogenizes voices and
experience of all women race and identity in the market Carby, (1982).
Differences in feminism and has intersectionality helped or changed
Feminism has generally affected the western society, including the women suffrage,
greater access to education, more equitable pay with the men in the market. Looking at the
evaluation of the Feminism it has been identified in the past feminism was just a movement
which looks at providing all the women the right they generally deserve but in today’s scenario
feminism has become removing and equalizing privilege outside the institution. Role which has
played the most important role in changing the feminism is change in the culture of different
individual who are following the same in the better way. Some of author has also identified that
intersectionality is another big thing which has generally played a very crucial role in
influencing the feminism in the better way in the organization Association for Women’s Rights
in Development (2018). As intersectionality in the feminist has generally broaden up the lens
which has helped the country in changing the way the society used to look at the women in
general in the market. At the same time intersenctionality feminism has created the opposes
analytical system that used to treat the oppressive factor in the isolation factor. As it was
identified that discrimination against black women could be explain in a way as only simple sum
of discrimination which has been occurred against black men and discrimination against the
white women was generally overlooked by intersenctionality in the feminist.
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SUMMARY AND DISCUSION
After going through different paragraph which has been presented in the above paragraph it
has been summarized that Feminism which helps them in regards conceptualizing in a person,
group of people affected by discrimination and disadvantages and feminism movement used to
explain the right of the women in the market Bryson, (1999). There are varieties of different
sort of the feminist which has been generally found that is liberal feminist, radical and Marxit
feminist in the market. Feminist in the history was regards as a movement which generally used
to promote the equal sort of the right to the women in context of the voting right as well as
providing the equal pay to them also safeguarding them. Feminism in the history was divided
into 3 to 4 ways, all of the three and the fours ways were followed in the different time duration
in the history. Feminism is not the thing which used to occur in one or the two nations it
generally used to occur throughout all nations in general. Feminism generally used to occur
throughout the globe as Sweden, France and Italy are some of the nation who has seen the
impact of Feminism very drastically in real. Black Feminism is another sort of the feminism
which was derived in the USA in 1920 in which the white women was always used to get good
sort of the preference upon the other black women in the market Assiter, (1996). Intersectional
feminist is another sort of feminism which in the recent past has been seen as a framework
which has generally helped the feminism in evolving to some extent it has also assisted in
evolving the different view point of different individual who used to see the feminism as
different way as compare to the other in the market. One of the biggest evaluation which has
been seen in the recent past is in regards of changes in the western culture which is prevailing in
the market. Feminism has generally changes the way individual used to see towards women as
women in current scenario are getting the same respect as compare to the men in developed
countries. Still question arises is women are getting same sort of the respect or equality compare
to men all over the globe and answer is no of the question. As it has been seen that there are
many nation who are not that develop and do not consider feminism as important as it is. This
eventually used to reduce the right of women Brah, (1996).
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CONCLUSION
The above report concludes the meaning of Intersectionality and the way it has begins. After
that report concluded the meaning of feminism and different views and types of the feminism
which is generally prevailing i.e. Exploitation, Discrimination and oppression form of feminism
and meaning of same. After that report goes on to explain the history of feminism and different
wave of feminism in the history. After that report goes on to explain the way feminism is
prevailing in varieties of the different and concept of black feminism and the way it has emerged
and different concept of black feminism. After that in the end the report concludes the
differences by highlighting the way feminism has evolved over the year in the positive way, also
highlights the influenced that culture has turn and postmodernism influenced the feminism as a
whole. After that report goes on to concludes difference of opinion of different individual and
the way intersectionality has brought that difference by highlighting both positive as well as
negative argument related to the same topic. In the end the report used to summarize the variety
of the different sort of the learning which has been gather from conducting the above report on
the topic feminism.
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