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    Article Reflection: Feminist Intersectional Theorizing Intersectionality is known to be one of the prominent social theories in feminism. This theory explores the factors that represent one’s identity. The purpose of this article is to explain the theorizing on race‚ class‚ and gender by Canadian feminist. Intersectionality portrays how women experiences are interconnected. The article “Feminist Intersectional Theorizing” written by Daiva K. Stasiulis‚ mainly talks about the intersectional theorizing

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    When it comes to food‚ quality is predominantly a rewarded topic because it is necessary for all humanity‚ people need it to grow well‚ flourish and live happy lives. It is inequality to all humans when individuals overhear about families within our communities living short of quality food. There are established substitute food organizations that use the term food justice to make a better effort in food. It seems that the organizations are operating the food justice pledge to food movement programs

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    describing disadvantaged identities as historically constituted‚ rather than innate. Focusing exclusively on one dynamic while ignoring the intersections of other structures of disadvantage often produce biased and inaccurate generalizations. Intersectionality recognizes that multiple oppressions are not each suffered separately but rather as a single‚ synthesized experience. Rather than having any unified canon‚ this concept draws primarily from direct experiences of the

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    and theories of Intersectionality began to emerge and come into the spotlight. Intersectionality is used to describe the connection between different social constructs‚ individual and relational ideologies‚ and structural aspects that contribute to oppression (Ramsay‚ 2014‚ p. 1771). Intersectionality is used to assess the relationship or intersection between various characteristics of a person such as race‚ class‚ and gender (Josephson‚ 2002‚ p. 86). Researchers use Intersectionality theory widely

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    Intersectionality is the study of interactions between specific groups that faces discrimination. For example‚ social practice within race and class are used to show the bias within the sytem.According to Kimberle Crenshaw (2009)‚ suggests that intersectionality is a group that uses forms of bias to shape specific groups by how they experience bias. Also‚ it analyzes social problems by shaping intervention in order to promote advocacy. The forms of bias that people face are based on prejudice acts

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    overall concept of intersectionality. As discussed extensively in our class lectures‚ the intersectionality of someone’s race‚ gender and socioeconomic class may contribute to the whatever current situation they may find themselves in. With that said‚ race‚ gender and socioeconomic class are the intersectionality characteristics that I decided to focus on in regards to the overall topic of sex trafficking. While thinking about this‚

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    Elizabeth Peyton is a contemporary American painter. Her exhibit “Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton” is a collection of portraits‚ for she has been interested in depicting her friends‚ her family‚ herself and several celebrities‚ such as Kurt Cobain‚ Matthew Barney‚ and Marc Jacobs. The painting‚ Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008‚ hereafter “Michelle and Sasha”‚ was added to the exhibition shortly after the election of President Obama

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    Reflection on Intersectionality Lab In this lab I learned a lot about myself and my classmates. For example‚ I learned that I was more privileged than I thought I was. Before this class I thought the privieged were only the wealthy. In this class I learned that privilege can be measured by a variety of things. I learned that many things that you do not think of privileges are privileges and people in other countries do not have these privileges. I learned I took these privileges for granted. In

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    Power and Oppression By Marsha Griggs Jonathan Swift and Mary Wollstonecraft were both consummate social commentators on the duality of power and oppression. Through the analysis of two of their works‚ namely‚ Swift’s A Modest Proposal and Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Right of Women one can see an easy assimilation of the challenges that such minds made to the disproportionate balance between the powerful and the oppressed. In fact each offers a differing view of the powerful

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    Feminist Theory‚ Embodiment‚ and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival Saba Mahmood Close Reading Analysis Lit 090 Mahmood looks to tackle the issue of not the cultures behind feminism but to understand the underpinnings behind feminism. She suggests that quite often the narrative is focused on feminism as a response to some sort of societal construct which allows the subordination of women. Her assertion is that we have to look at how feminism is defined in society

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