History

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Intersectionality Activity Guide:

Broadening the focus of feminism. Explain how specific populations of women

challenged white, middle class feminists to address Intersectionality (the ways in which

a person’s multiple identities interconnect to impact a person’s experience as well as

how institutions and systems influence power and privilege based upon multiple

identities).

Use the Week 16 Module Resources and Chapters 11 and 12 of Through Women’s Eyes,

to complete the following guide. The guide is intended to help focus on key concepts

and will not be submitted. It also duplicates many of the questions in the Chapter 11

Reading Guide.

Explain intersectionality:

Lesbian Activism and Sexual Politics:

African American Women’s Influence:

Latinx Activism and Influence:

Asian American Women’s Influence:

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Native American Women’s Influence:

Women’s Influence in the Disability Rights Movement:

By the 1970s and 1980s, how inclusive was the women’s movement and how effectively

did it address the multidimensional nature of women’s inequality and obstacles in the

path to equality?

What were the most severe obstacles blocking women’s path toward equality in the late

twentieth- and early twenty-first-centuries?

What were the most significant accomplishments women achieved in the struggle for

equality in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries?