right to vote. The second wave expanded its focus to women’s social issues related to domestic violence issues, their reproductive rights and their rights within the workplace inclusive of public service specifically politics. These waves lacked intersectionality as they didn’t consider some of the other challenges that possibly impacted those issues like feminism taking place beyond simply national initiatives. Transnational feminism as exemplified is the inclusion and consideration of other cultures
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when he said I was just like my mother, another angry Black woman looking for drama. I stop. I am angry, I am just like my mother, I am oppressed, I am misunderstood, I am a woman, I am Black, I am an American, I am Ariel; nice to meet you. The intersectionality of my identities has shaped my experience and will continue to shape my experience in this world. Women of Color in America experience oppression on the basis of our race and our gender; the oppressions are not separate but equal, they do not
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First wave feminists attempted to focus on the various existing women’s issues, generating arguments regarding inclusiveness (Taylor, 1983, as cited in Ewig & Ferree, 2013, p. 439). Some groups wished for cross-class, cross-race, and cross-cultural comprehension, but inclusion represented still a dilemma because of the high extent of stratification in societies (Rupp, 1996; Offen, 2010, as cited in Ewig & Ferree, 2013, p. 439). Additionally, some early struggles underlined the distressed relation
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These tenets include racism is not ordinary or aberrational, interest convergence, social construction, the notion of intersectionality and anti-essentialism, notion of a unique voice of color. The first tenets suggest that racism is deeply embedded into the social and it is often taken for granted and also viewed as natural (Delgado & Stefancic, 2001). However, racism is not
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abuse. The authors provide an in-depth exploration of the everyday lives of the Edgewater homeless community, depicting some of the gruesome realities that are associated with heroin addiction. Throughout the book, the authors highlight the intersectionality of homelessness, substance abuse, poverty, race, class, gender,
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they created in the food supply, and their effect as a global corporation. In order to analyze the impact of Monsanto, a feminist lens of intersectionality is needed to see how the genetically modified seeds created by Monsanto lead to their domination of the nature and humans. According to Kimberle Crenshaw, “...any analysis that does not take intersectionality into account cannot sufficiently address the particular manner” (58). Crenshaw argues that an experience is greater than a sum of two factors
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heritage, provides her with cultural practices as well as traditional beliefs past down to her by her ‘grandmothers’, to where she’s perceiving the world through native lenses. In similar, both readings believe that with understanding the role of intersectionality within our sexuality and by accepting it, “with awareness comes the understanding that love has the power to transform us, giving us the
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colonial encounter was only a brief, blue-print discussion, found only within the opening chapter due to the large focus on the historical period post mid-nineteenth century. Although the author is aware of the societal inequalities that form an intersectionality of human relations with their water, Colten marginally refers to slavery and does not examine the connections between ethnicity and race with water services. Pertaining to its Southern regional focus, Colten does make comparisons to the other
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Measures of Central Tendency, Measures of Dispersion and Probability 7 Measures of Central Tendency, Measures of Dispersion and Probability Distributions Shiloh Yard Arizona State University Assignment 2 Article 1 1. What do standard deviations tell us about variables? Meaning, provide an explanation of standard deviation in your own words. [1pt] Standard deviations tell us how far variables are from the mean. They can be used to tell
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Title: Racism Introduction There has always been some kind of prejudice among people who live in a certain geographical area. Whether in the way of living, the way they look, their wealth or the resources available. The way one was brought up or his/her way of life will define how that person will relate to the people around him. An example is whereby a girl was brought up in a strict religious family. Her church had a congregation of African Americans only, and any other race was not allowed to
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