Analyzing Intersectional Feminism: Identity, Justice, and Inclusion

This essay provides a comprehensive overview of intersectional feminism, defining it as a framework that recognizes the overlapping identities of women, including race, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation, and how these identities shape their experiences of oppression and discrimination. It emphasizes the movement's significance in addressing the needs of women from diverse backgrounds, advocating for inclusivity and highlighting the importance of incorporating marginalized voices into feminist discourse. The essay also presents a case study of Gustavus College in Minnesota, illustrating how an intersectional approach is applied to address issues such as sexual assault and racialized violence on campus, aligning with national surveys on violence against female students. The analysis underscores the necessity of intersectional feminism in promoting a more holistic and progressive feminist movement.

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Intersectional Feminism
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Intersectional feminism:
Intersectional feminism has much wider connotations than the meaning of just
feminism itself. While the usual concept of feminism deals with the advocating of the
different women’s rights and the idea of quality between the different sexes, the concept of
intersectional feminism refers to the level of understanding of the different overlapping
identities of women that includes race, the ethnicity and the different religious and sexual
orientation that impact the way of facing the different oppressions along with the
discrimination that exists across the different levels (Gökarıksel, Banu, and Smith ,628-
644).The concept of intersectional feminism has gained widespread significance in that part
that has raised from the Women’s march in Washington. The main principle of the movement
was on resting on unity that also includes the belief that gender justice leads to racial justice
that eventually gives rise to economic justice.
Significance of Intersectional feminism:
The significance of intersectional feminism lies in the fact that feminism not only
affect the cis gendered, or the people of the middle class, or only the white women but also
all women from the different diverse backgrounds with the different varying needs. This
means that it becomes very important for the women identified with color or the Trans
women to identify and gradually learn the type of struggles that are associated with trans
phobia or racism (Parker and Rachel) In order to make the feminist movement more
progressive in nature, it is very important to include the marginalized section within its
movement. Intersectional feminism will make the femini8st movement more holistic and
inclusive in nature.

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Intersectional approach in college campuses:
The Gustavas College located in Minnesota provides a classic example of promoting
intersectional feminism in its campus. The college authorities assigned severe punishment for
any act of sexual assault within the college campus. The college authorities have also taken
various preventive measures regarding the racialized form of violence or the perpetration of
violence against the different sections of women. The intersectional approach to physical
violence also includes the intersecting hierarchies of the race, gender, and the other forms of
power attached to the people. The intersectional feminism approach is the need of the hour in
the rising scenario increasing violence mainly against the female student as stated in the
national surveys released by the Association of the American universities (AAU) (Losh,
Elizabeth, and Wernimont).

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References:
Gökarıksel, Banu, and Sara Smith. "Intersectional feminism beyond US flag hijab and pussy
hats in Trump’s America." Gender, Place & Culture 24.5 (2017): 628-644.
Losh, Elizabeth, and Jacqueline Wernimont, eds. Bodies of Information: Intersectional
Feminism and the Digital Humanities. U of Minnesota Press, 2019.
Parker, Rachel. "Okay, Ladies, Now Let’s Get in Formation: Intersectional Feminism in
Beyoncé’s Lemonade." (2018).