Kimberlé W. Crenshaw

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (born May 5, 1959) is a US-based Black feminist civil rights advocate and a scholar of critical race theory. Crenshaw is known for introducing and developing intersectionality, also known as intersectional theory, the study of how overlapping or intersecting social identities, particularly minority identities, relate to systems and structures of oppression, domination, or discrimination. Her work further expands to include intersectional feminism, which is a sub-category related to intersectional theory. Intersectional feminism examines the overlapping systems of oppression and discrimination that women face due to their ethnicity, sexuality, and economic background.

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