Understanding Intersectionality: Complexity in Social Inequalities

The term ‘intersectionality’ was originally used by Crenshaw (1989, 1991), a legal theorist, in a discussion of the lack of explicit non-discrimination protections for Black women (reference to article). In the early twenty-first century, the term is generally used as a way of understanding and analyzing the complexity in the world, in human connections and experiences (reference book what is intersectionality). As Audre Lorde (1982) states, ‘There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle, because we do not live single-issue lives.’ (slide 9- reference ppp) Struggles of social inequalities are shaped by various factors in diverse, dynamic and mutually influencing ways (reference book). Thus, in order to examine them, we need a tool that

(week 4 reading 1). "Difference" is a non-violent approach that indicates that develops the notion that men and women communicate from and in different cultural worlds (reference ppp). Deborah Tannen is a major advocate of this position with her book You Just Don't Understand (1990). (reference week4 reading 1). Comparing conversational goals, Tannen argues that men aim to communicate factual information, whereas women are more concerned with building and maintaining cooperative, caring, emotional relationships. In addition, Cameron (kai imerominia einai to week 4 reading 1) again provides a very good example of ‘difference approach’ helping us to understand the way it entered the public view of language and gender. The example used is the book of a mass-writer, John Gray, who wrote a fictional tale about how the two sexes migrated to planet earth from the different planets of Mars and Venus and that each sex is acclimated to its own planet's society and customs, but not to those of the