Patriarchy, Black Wom Shaping Feminist

In feminist theory, intersectionality is a theory which describes how women can face multiple intersecting and overlapping systems of oppression such as sex, race and class. These systems deem to focus on the minority and or discriminate against. Each system of oppression is unable to be examined separately because of it’s intersecting and interconnectedness. More over, intersectionality describes the higherarchical nature of power and how belonging to multiple minority or discriminative systems may indicate one’s personal identity will be disregarded in society. That being the case, even though intersectionality is traditionally applied to women, women are not the only one’s oppressed from intersectionality, men are also being affected by such happening of intersecting and interconnectedness. The concept of intersectionality first came into use by the scholar Kimberle Crenshaw, a civil rights advocate.
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the complexity of intersectionality as explained by Bell Hooks from her essay’s Understanding Patriarchy, Black Woman: Shaping Feminist Theory, and Feminism: a movement to end sexist oppression followed by Ladelle Mc Whorter's essay Sex, Race, and Biopower: A Foucauldian Genealogy, and to end Cherrie Moraga’s essay La