Prompt One Intersectionality Analysis

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Prompt One Intersectionality is a term that is used to describe the ways in which a person's gender, race, sexuality and class interact. This term is important, especially within the study of WGS, because it can help explain how the different facets of personality come together to form one identity. Privilege and oppression are two terms which are inextricably intertwined when viewed under a WGS lens. Privilege can be described as something granted to one group and withheld from another group, with this second group being identified as the oppressed. Many essays within section one of Introduction to Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies, co-written by Ayu Saraswati, Barbara Shaw, and Heather Rellihan, help to further illustrate these ideas. …show more content…
because thousands of lesbians and gay [people] are black” (pg. 1). 75). The syllable of the syllable. These statements are helpful as they lay out plainly what exactly it means to have an intersectional identity, and why you cannot fight one form of oppression and not another, as ignoring one form of oppression would be akin to ignoring a part of your personality. A second article Making Masculinity, by C.J. Pascoe, illustrates privilege and oppression as she discusses masculinity, the ways folks of different classes, races and backgrounds are expected to show masculinity, and how the patriarchy and white male oppression affects everyone, including other men. Understanding that privilege and oppression are not just terms used when discussing race is important, and helps us understand what it means to be oppressed, what it means to have privilege, and that you can be privileged in one way, and oppressed in another. Pascoe notes that masculinity can be seen as “a multiplicity of gender practices” and that “part of the definition of a psychologically ‘normal’ adult came to involve. adjustment to one's gender
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