When considering the issue of multiple discrimination, it is worth starting from the fact that each person has many aspects of identity. People do not see themselves as just women or men, only people of a certain age, only as heterosexual or homosexual people. People's identities consist of many components, they are functions of belonging and identification with many groups and circles. These are complex, multidimensional integrals, which depending on the situation, some identifications or roles become more important, but never contain the multidimensionality of identity (although we are often perceived by others only through the prism of belonging to one group, which ignores this complexity of identity). This class increased my knowledge of …show more content…
They pointed out that the situation of women is determined by their perception of gender, but it is also significantly affected by other characteristics, identity and belonging. In 1977, a manifesto of the Boston group, Combahee River Collective, was published. “A Black Feminist Statement.” Black feminists pointed out that gender-based exclusion, race and class are inextricably linked. They wrote that experienced white women from the upper class, well-off, heterosexual, non-disabled, educated are distant from the experiences of colored women, struggling not only with sexism, but also with racial discrimination and classism. The rhetoric of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s was organized around the similarity of all women's interests, which in the long term meant marginalizing the prospects and interests of this Black women movement, whose specificity was …show more content…
Intersectionality is now understood as an approach analyzing ways in which social and cultural categories intersect, overlap, interlock and strengthen. At the center of the intersectional analysis there are links between gender, "race", ethnicity, fitness, sexual orientation, class, nationality, etc. Crenshaw described a situation in which people belong to many minority groups at the same time and therefore experience specific, multiple forms of unequal, worse treatment and multiple