...The article “Theorising and Researching Intersectionality: A Challenge for Feminist Geography” illustrates how achieved and ascribed status can affect the way people interact with one another in their day to day actives and how the repercussive outcomes of an action may affect the person's outlook on certain situations. Gill valentine (2008) article specifically focuses on women's disadvantages though a feminist view and how the level of disadvantaged can be broken down based on an individuals intersectionality, through this they can be misunderstood and abused in various ways for instance being a women has labels that exploit women through personal and social activities, moreover being a women of an ethnic background creates even larger forms...
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...The purpose of this essay is to review Kimberle Crenshaw’s 1991 article about the marginalisation of women of colour. The article focuses on how feminism ignores black women’s ethnicity and how antiracist campaigns ignore black women’s gender. This is where the term ‘intersectionality’ arose from. Intersectionality is used to give people experiencing more than one form of oppression the opportunity to identify as both minorities at once instead of each one separately. For example instead of identifying as black and gay and a woman a person is able to identify as a black gay woman. This is intersectionality. As previously mentioned, the main topic of Crenshaw’s article is society’s ignorance of women of colour; both campaigns that could be aimed...
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...The Making of Gendered Violence Caitlin Murray January 29th, 2016 For an act that is considered “taboo” to talk about, violence against women is one of the most prolific violent acts in the world. Because it is so common that a woman will experience violence against them at one point in their lives, the act often goes overlooked by either society or the victim themselves. Media has taught us that violence against women occurs, but because of the way it is portrayed, we often don’t see the real brutality of the act, which can desensitize us. Intersectionality has helped woman strengthen their fight against assaults, but has also ignored the differences between assaults that occur between races. There unfortunately is a difference between the assault of a white woman and the assault of a black woman. This paper will discuss these topics and look at why each of them occurs. The rape or domestic abuse of women has now become a familiar scene in movies and television. But are we actually seeing the assault? Most often we are not. The assault is almost always implied, by showing the woman or girl crying afterwards, in a broken state telling her friends and family what happened. We can even see the victim immediately after the assault occurred. However it is extremely rare for media to film an assault scene (Easteal, 2015). This is because the assault scene is usually "too graphic” and viewers do not want to have to witness such a gruesome act. This not only creates a taboo nature...
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...Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal Equality and diversity in employment relations: do we practise what we preach? Jane Holgate Sue Abbott Nicolina Kamenou Josie Kinge Jane Parker Susan Sayce Jacqueline Sinclair Laura Williams Article information: To cite this document: Jane Holgate Sue Abbott Nicolina Kamenou Josie Kinge Jane Parker Susan Sayce Jacqueline Sinclair Laura Williams, (2012),"Equality and diversity in employment relations: do we practise what we preach?", Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: An International Journal, Vol. 31 Iss 4 pp. 323 - 339 Permanent link to this document: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/02610151211223021 Downloaded on: 01 December 2014, At: 02:26 (PT) References: this document contains references to 46 other documents. To copy this document: permissions@emeraldinsight.com The fulltext of this document has been downloaded 3118 times since 2012* Downloaded by UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER At 02:26 01 December 2014 (PT) Users who downloaded this article also downloaded: C.W. Von Bergen, Barlow Soper, John A. Parnell, (2005),"Workforce diversity and organisational performance", Equal Opportunities International, Vol. 24 Iss 3/4 pp. 1-16 http:// dx.doi.org/10.1108/02610150510788033 Vidhi Agrawal, Vidhi Agrawal, (2012),"Managing the diversified team: challenges and strategies for improving performance", Team Performance Management: An International Journal, Vol. 18 Iss 7/8 pp. 384-400 http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13527591211281129...
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...reproductive rights was placed second. The Chicano men’s ideology that equal rights is more important than reproductive rights contributes to gender formation as their social belief leads to the attribution of women’s issue as being secondary rather than being an equal issue. This led to the separation of the movement as counter-hegemony, which are ideologies that go against what society views as common sense, is found within a counter-hegemonic movement. This separation meant the issues of race and gender are combined as the Chicana women have to face the problems of the Chicano community is facing in regards to equal rights and they also have to face the issue of reproductive rights for women. The combination demonstrates intersectionality. This intersectionality contributes to injustice as it hindered justice from being achieved as women were left behind in the movement that tried to achieve justice. The Feminist movement was another counter-hegemonic movement that took place at the same time as the issue of forced sterilization, yet created some injustice for Chicana women as their ideologies for solutions to the issue of reproductive rights differed. White feminists at the time demanded the right to have abortions immediately. The conflict began as Chicana feminists wanted to have a waiting period for abortions. The waiting period would serve as a countermeasure to lack of consent for abortions as evident by the lack of consent for the sterilization of women at the LAC+USC Hospital...
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...As explained in class, intersectionality is a complex topic as it makes the idea of oppression become much more complex itself. The two quotes explain how society as a whole likes to view the idea of privilege and oppression and simple things. One is discriminated against because they are either African American or a woman, not because they are African American and a woman. This also goes the other way around. If one is white in a white-dominated society, they are naturally going to be privileged, but females experience this privilege at a far lesser extent than their male counterparts, just as African American women are more disadvantaged than African American men despite being the same race. The single-story quote best explains this. As...
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...in the United States. This layered issue incites deeper investigation to see if healthcare accessibility acts as a prism to reflect broader social inequities. The question arises: How do socioeconomic factors and immigration status converge to influence healthcare accessibility for the Latinx community in the United States? This literature review aims to break down this intersection, attempting to break down these dimensions to see whether they withhold or foster access to healthcare for the Latinx community in the United States. This review attempts to untangle the cobwebs contributing to the discrepancies in healthcare access and outcomes, focusing on understanding the roles of socioeconomic status, immigration status, and their intersectionality. SOCIOECONOMICS FACTORS INFLUENCING HEALTHCARE ACCESS There is a rather complex relationship between socioeconomic status and healthcare access for the Latinx community, as it highlights a broader narrative of inequity and exclusion within the American healthcare system. A thorough analysis reveals that socioeconomic status, including employment conditions, income levels, and health insurance coverage, plays a vital role in shaping the Latinx community's healthcare standards. Research by Bustamante et al. (2010) shows, there are stark disparities in healthcare utilization among the Latinx community, and these gaps can be directly correlated to socioeconomic variables. “The analyses in the present study show that significant differences...
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...Structural Intersectionality is the idea that people with two or more minority identities have different qualitative experiences when interacting with economic arrangements, social norms, and institutions than a sum of people who hold those identities separately from one another. Crenshaw cited women’s shelters turning away women of color who did not speak English as an example of different experiences within an institution. Crenshaw shows that these structures are not only experienced differently by intersectional people, but that it also disadvantages these people while advantaging others. This happens because the structures themselves were built with a specific user base in mind, in which those with intersectional identities were not thought of. This thought process is known as essentialism, which states that there is a characteristic that...
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...Additionally, the Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which upheld the doctrine of "separate but equal," provided legal justification for segregationist policies. These institutionalized forms of racism created a pervasive environment of inequality and injustice that the Civil Rights Movement sought to dismantle. The intersectionality of race, class, and gender became evident in the ways in which African American women were marginalized within the Civil Rights Movement. While the movement was largely led by prominent male figures such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, it is crucial to recognize the significant contributions of African American women who played a pivotal role in advancing the cause of civil rights. Figures such as Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Ella Baker were instrumental in organizing protests, advocating for change, and challenging the intersecting forms of oppression faced by African American women. The issue of class stratification further complicated the dynamics of the Civil Rights Movement. Economic inequality and poverty disproportionately...
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...Alongside Race and Socioeconomic status, these are also effected by one’s level of education. When looking at the intersectionality between race, socioeconomic status and other privileges, one that effect these the most is one’s level and accessibility to proper education. Focusing on the aspect of Race, Economic Status and Education, one’s parental education level can greatly affect one’s economic status simply because of the opportunities, resources and employment that will be available to them according to their level of education. For example, the racial achievement gap or the Opportunity gap between white communities and communities of color has a grave effect on the wellbeing of the community and one’s economic standing within our society and poverty and a poor economic status has an adverse effect on a student’s performance, which can become an issue later in life. Condensing students with these disadvantages in schools that host one racial and socioeconomic stance can further worsen these disadvantages. School segregation also has a role in how these issues and disadvantages are worsened in racially and economically homogenous schools. For example, in 2008,...
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...DOMESTIC CHANGING HEORY CHANGING PRACTICE 1. Introduction Throughout our world, violence confronts us daily. We hear about it on the news. We read about it in newspapers and on the Internet. We experience it subtly and overtly in all cultures and across nations in incidents ranging from ethnic slurs to hate crimes to violence carried out in the name of ideology. Such incidents of violence tend to be easily seen as they fall within the public domain. Less visible, however, but often more devastating, is the domestic violence that occurs within the family and often against women. The International Council of Nurses (ICN) (2001) notes in a summary of research done on four continents that as many as 20 to 50 percent of all women in the studies reported experiencing partner violence. But what are the links among domestic violence, health care profession, nurses, and ethics? In moral philosophy, there is a long tradition of debate on whether true moral dilemmas can exist, some arguing that it will always be possible to decide which obligation should prevail. On this concept regardless of the abstract possibility of an ideal resolution and the pragmatic reality that decisions are made and people have to live with them. An ethical dilemma presents a choice that must be made between two mutually exclusive courses of action, each of which is perceived to rest on a moral obligation that carries significant weight for the actor confronting the dilemma. According to Draucker...
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...In this paper I choose to write about the Social Perception of women in the workplace, because women in the professional industry are overlooked everyday especially when u a woman of different race; It becomes very difficult to gain respect or even promotion in that field. In today’s world women of different race are forced to deal with racism and sexism and they have to tolerate it if they want to keep that job but when does this behavior stop; I mean how long can this women continue to keep silent just because they want to provide for their families and if they fight back they are painted as the aggressor “saying she wanted it” but do a young woman walking an office asking for job, or even walking the office asking to be harassed about her body or been called names wanting it. In order for women to talking seriously in his century they have to act like men, be aggressive like them, make their presence by been hard which sometimes can lead to people calling her names; but as a woman of color I understand that they have no choice but to act that way because that’s the only way anybody in that office will take them seriously. With most women of color today the perception of how they see other women been treated can alter their choices in career, so sometimes they settle for career where they feel more comfortable it may not be the dream career they want, if you take a look at most fortune 500 companies almost all their CEO’s are men it rarely before you see a woman CEO in any...
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...All of these things considered, we have a major social problem on our hands: the inequalities among and within our public schools, and the major disadvantage this places on minority and low-income groups. In order to accurately suggest a policy to repair the cracks in our system, it is important to first understand the issues more in-depth. As Storer et al. poignantly state in “Moving Beyond Dichotomies…”, “…class, race and place are intricately bound to one another and a singular focus on any of these factors is an insufficient explanation for educational outcomes” (18-19). In other words, race, class, and location affect each other, and combined, they all play a crucial part in education. As an initial example, Storer et al. point to the...
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...Running head: RACIALIZED REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE BEAUTY 1 Racialized Representations of Female Beauty in Popular Culture (Name) University of New Mexico RACIALIZED REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMALE BEAUTY Racialized Representations of Female Beauty in Popular Culture 2 For the past 22 years People magazine has composed a list of the 50 most beautiful people. The list typically includes movie and television stars, musicians, British royalty, models, and television personalities. Every year the magazine crowns the year’s “most beautiful” and features them on the cover. Of the 22 most beautiful 19 have been women and out of the 19 women 16 have been White. This signals to People’s readers that beautiful means White and everything else does not equate beauty. However, this is not unique to People or even magazines like it, but instead represents a larger trend that is present in all forms of Western popular culture. In the various mediums of popular culture, ideologies about female beauty are exceedingly prevalent and constantly managed and reproduced. These ideologies carry with them the notion that in order to obtain ideal female beauty one must be very thin, young, have long hair, and wear expensive or revealing clothing (Stern, 2004). In addition to this there is also a raced definition of beauty, which predominates Western popular culture and dictates that White women with light hair and eye color can only attain true beauty. By looking closely at fashion magazines...
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...listening, learning, and respecting diverse perspectives. 2. What is the difference between a'smart' and a'smart'? Give two reasons why do you think some marginalised groups may be more subject to trauma than the mainstream population? Here are two reasons why marginalized groups may be more susceptible to trauma. Structural Disadvantages and Discrimination: • Explanation: Marginalized communities often face systemic disadvantages, discrimination, and social exclusion. Impact: These stressors can lead to chronic stress, anxiety, and trauma. Racial and Ethnic Minorities: Experience racism, microaggressions, and historical trauma. LGBTQ+ Individuals: Face stigma, rejection, and violence. Refugees and Asylum Seekers: Escape war, persecution, and displacement. People with Disabilities: Encounter ableism and barriers to access. Example: An undocumented immigrant who survived a perilous journey may carry trauma from both the journey and the fear of deportation. 2. What is the difference between a'smart' and a'smart'? Intersectionality and Cumulative Trauma: • Explanation: Marginalized individuals often experience multiple forms of oppression simultaneously (intersectionality). Impact: Cumulative trauma results from intersecting identities (e.g., being both a woman and a person of color). Each layer adds to the risk of trauma. Example: A transgender woman of color faces discrimination based on race, gender identity, and sexual orientation. The cumulative impact can be profound. Understanding...
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