Topic 14 - Intersectionality

Question 1

What is intersectionality?

Answer 1

Intersectionality is the way in which different identities (e.g. age, ethnicity, class) overlap, causing complex systems of discrimination or disadvantage.

Question 2

Sontag (1978) - Gender and age

Answer 2

Older women face discrimination within the workplace

Question 3

Basit (1997) - Gender and ethnicity

Answer 3

The ways in which teachers stereotyped against Muslim students. They believe they were being oppressed but the girls didn’t see the hijab to be oppressive.

Question 4

Bhatti (1999) - Gender and ethnicity

Answer 4

Family honour, ‘Izzat’
• Family honour taken seriously
• Mothers saw their role as important

Question 5

Mac an Ghail (1994) - Gender and class

Answer 5

Working class men experience crisis of masculinity due to the decline of the labour jobs (the working class man)

Question 6

McCormack & Anderson (2010) - Gender and Sexuality

Answer 6

Young teenage boys oppose homophobia but privilege of heterosexuality.

Question 7

Howe (2000) - Ethnicity and Nationality

Answer 7

Difficulty of being Black and English. ( People didn’t see him as English because he is Black)