Synopsis
A foundational essay arguing that women of color experience violence and discrimination at the intersection of race and gender, which single-axis frameworks miss.
Core passage idea
Paraphrase · Modern copyrighted workWhen systems of race and gender bias overlap, the people caught at their intersection fall through the gaps of both single-issue remedies.
It names intersectionality as a tool for seeing harms that fragmented anti-discrimination thinking renders invisible.
To avoid a bubble
Pair with The Subjection of Women.
Reading note
Read it as a legal-theory essay; the structural, political, and representational forms of intersectionality structure it.
Best paired with
The Subjection of Women