Legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw looked at discrimination cases brought by Black women in the United States and showed how courts treated race and sex as separate categories, leaving Black women’s specific experience of discrimination unrecognised.
To describe how these systems overlap, she introduced the term intersectionality, now one of the most influential ideas in feminist thought. Note: published in a law review, which follows legal academic editing rather than standard peer review. Free to read.
