The feminist movement has also laid the groundwork for newintersectionalities with other movements. Theintersectionality of interests between legal feminists and fem-crits has perpetuated a progressive CLS [Critical Legal Studies]-tilt within feminist legal discourse.
1998, Rhea V. Almeida, “The Dislocation of Women's Experience in Family Therapy”, in Rhea V. Almeida, editor,Transformations of Gender and Race: Family and Developmental Perspectives, New York, N.Y.:Haworth Press,→ISBN,page16:
With men who are unemployed men or have limited access to work this heightening of masculinity within the interior of the familial relationship is of particular relevance with differences attributable to theintersectionality of race, class, culture and sexual orientation.
2014, Patrick R. Grzanka, “Introduction: Intersectional Objectivity”, in Patrick R. Grzanka, editor,Intersectionality: A Foundations and Frontiers Reader, Boulder, Colo.:Westview Press,→ISBN,page xx:
[Lisa] Bowleg details how she went about a psychological study of Black lesbian women only to find—in the midst of data collection—that the study had been configured along an additive model of identity that could not account for theintersectionality of her participants' experiences.
1989,Kimberlé [Williams] Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics”, inThe University of Chicago Legal Forum[1], volume139, archived fromthe original on6 May 2016, page141:
One way to approach the problem ofintersectionality is to examine how courts frame and interpret the stories of Black women plaintiffs.
2012, Kalwant Bhopal, John Preston, “Introduction: Intersectionality and ‘Race’ in Education: Theorising Difference”, in Kalwant Bhopal, John Preston, editors,Intersectionality and “Race” in Education, New York, N.Y., Abingdon, Oxon.:Routledge,→ISBN,page 1:
This book is aboutintersectionality and is particularly concerned with examiningtheorisingintersectionalities and difference. In recent years, the concept ofintersectionality has taken centre stage and has become a dominant model with which to engage in how differences such as ‘race’, gender, class, sexuality, age, disability and religion interweave and intersect upon individual lives in a modern ‘risk’ society[…].
Intersectionality is a way of understanding and analyzing the complexity in the world, in people, and in human experiences. The events and conditions of social and political life and the self can seldom be understood as shaped by one factor. They are generally shaped by many factors in diverse and mutually influencing ways.[…]Intersectionality as an analytic tool gives people better access to the complexity of the world and of themselves.