the idea intersectionality. She explained how it was necessary to recognize that women are not a single, homogenous group, but rather a diverse group with sub-sections that each have their own issues. This led her to discussing the difference between equity and equality, as equity implies noting people’s differences and reaching equality through helping each group with their distinct needs, while equality implies treating everyone equally, which, now knowing the concept of intersectionality, might
In The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a moment that starkly captures the intersection of scientific ambition and ethical oversight occurs when Henrietta, an African-American woman, finds herself unwittingly at the heart of a medical revolution. Her cancer cells, taken without her consent, not only outlived her, but also became a cornerstone of modern medicine. Author Rebecca Skloot meticulously unfolds Henrietta’s story against a backdrop of racial and gender inequalities. She highlights how these
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is a shockingly true story about how cancer, racism, and other unfortunate circumstances befall our main character, leading to a scientific discovery of a lifetime. The main character in our biography, Henrietta Lacks, was diagnosed with cervical cancer in her early 30s. During her treatment, doctors discovered that the samples of cancer cells collected from her didn’t die like other cells normally would, rather they continued to divide. These
disparities of young black and minority ethnic (BME) males in the criminal justice system and identify intersectional influences overrepresentation within the system in order to recognise the inequalities these people face and promote social justice. Intersectionality
differences of how we look and how we see people. Therefore, this study is informed by the literature and theories related to the White gaze of Black women, feminist art education, and intersectionality (Collins 2000, Lorde, 2014; Thornton & Zambrana, 2017; Jonet, 2012). In the field of Black feminist thought, intersectionality details the lived experience of Black women that is different from
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION The psychological effects of caregivers who provide ongoing care for person with Alzheimer’s disease. This capstone proposal explores the psychological effects of caregivers who provide ongoing care for person with Alzheimer’s disease. For the purpose of this study, the focus is on persons who have provided care for a person diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease for a minimum of five years. This chapter offers general background on this topic, the theoretical framework of this
Education Inequality through Intersectionality In recent years, the term intersectionality has taken the foregrounds in understanding how differences such as age, gender, race, sexuality, disability, and religion, etc., interweave and intersect upon individual lives in modern society (Beck 1992). Intersectionality has become a demonstration as to understand, employ, and analyze with difference in which difference itself becomes a feature of otherness. Intersectionality is important to understand
knowledge. I had the pleasure to listen to three different women present there own research, this session was titled; Inequalities in Education, Gender, and Intersectionality. I’ve decided to give a summary and reflection on two of the three speakers that I found very interesting with the Inequalities in Education, Gender, and Intersectionality section of the symposium. The first speaker that presented was
Women have a history of fighting for their rights. Women reached a huge stepping-stone when they were granted the right to vote in August 26th in 1920, by the passing of the 19th Amendment. However, there are still many issues unsolved and unspoken by many, such as women’s health issues. If we go back in history, when Margaret Sanger did the “unspeakable” in 1916 and opened the first U.S. birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, New York and that moment became chaos. Despite her courage, she was arrested
between men and women, and how gender has socially constructed differences. Studying the differences of gender allows us to understand the history of the “male norm” in classical Athens. Intersectionality is another important concept when studying the “male norm.” The oxford dictionary defined Intersectionality as the interconnected nature of social categorization such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating