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Intersectionality - Coggle Diagram
Intersectionality
Intersectionality in the context of development
oppression is interconnected and interdependent
multiple kinds of oppression
Development victimizes women in Third World countries and ignores actual systemic oppression
There is a lack of studies that use intersectionality as a basis for their work
Utilizing this allows for more perspectives on racist, sexist, and homophobic issues
Critiques of intersectionality
measuring who is intersectional and who is not remains loosely defined
utilizes the concept of an additive binary
do
or
do not
have oppression (binary)
varying types of oppression adding onto each other
has no particular methodology to go off of
does not create its own concept of power and weakly links itself to current concepts of power
provides an andequate viepoint on how people who belong to more marginalized groups experience more forms of oppression
However, it has significant limitations
Do Muslim Women (Still) Need Saving?
Failure to see and understand the "Muslim" in "Muslim Women"
It was revealed how women in Afghanistan were being oppressed and persecuted by the Taliban
revealed in a
Time
magazine which led to debate and awareness
Instead of asking the historical or analytical questions for why women were treated this way in Afghanistan, questions about women in relation to Islam or Islam itself were asked (cultural)
Instead of asking what divided countries, they tried to artificially divide cultures
After Muslim women were freed from Taliban rule it became a shock to many that the women would still comfortably wear their burqas
This should not have been a shock because the burqa is important to Muslim women and was not a symbolic shackle
Women wore to show they came from good families and they were respectable and modest women
Thinking the burqa was some kind of symbol representing unfreedom reduces their culture
Approaches to issues of women, cultural relativism, and problems of "difference" should be seen from 3 angles
consider the feminist viewpoint
remain critical of the previous angle and avoid ethnocentrism
remember that a difference is not a problem
The concept of saving someone remains problematic
What
are you saving them
from
?
What
are you saving them
to
?