"INTERSECTIONALITY" AS A LENS THROUGH HOW WE PERCEIVE "WOMEN OF COLOR"

Yıl 2022, Cilt: 2 Sayı: 2, 1 - 10, 30.07.2022

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Looking through the problems of women, who are on the margins and who had experienced othering, with the perspective of Kimberle Crenshaw’s concept of “intersectionality” provides us a wider foresight in the bourgeois global world. Kimberle Crenshaw’s concept of “intersectionality” is the central point of this article to criticize the centralization of the problems of Women of Color with the categories of gender or race for explaining the violence they have to endure. In accordance with Crenshaw’s concept of “intersectionality”, Women of Color experience such difficult problems through the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, nation, class, religion, immigration status, locality, ability/ disability status and etc. This interconnected bound makes the experiences of Women of Color harsher both in their patriarchal localities and in their outside worlds. The concept of “intersectionality” as discussed by Kimberle Crenshaw, who criticizes the centralization of gender as the interpretive criteria for explaining violence against women, however disregards or demeans of other interlocking social aspects such as race, nation, ethnicity, class, religion, locality, ability/disability as the elements of gender relations, oppressions on their domestic space, subordination and their gender inequality, are the central points of this article. In accordance with Crenshaw’s acceptance of patriarchy as an intersecting feature of subordination structure of domination, the movement of “Women of Color” argues that there is an interconnected bound between patriarchy, nation, ethnicity, class, religion, gender inequality, immigration status and locality of Women of Color in the rule of patriarchy. As a result of looking at the marginalized women within the lens through intersectionality, Women of Color would stand for their disadvantaged status in terms of their interactions of race, nation, class, ethnicity, religion, immigration status, locality and the other social structures.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Women Of Color, Kimberle Crenshaw, Intersectionality, Gender Mainstream, Patriarchy, Black Women

“INTERSECTIONALITY” AS A LENS THROUGH HOW WE PERCEIVE “WOMEN OF COLOR”

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Sınırlarda olan, ötekileştirilen kadınların sorunlarına Kimberle Crenshaw’ın “kesişimsellik” bakış acısıyla bakmak, bize küreselleşen bir dünyada daha geniş bir öngörü sağlar. Kadınlara uygulanan şiddet açısından cinsiyet kavramının temel bir neden olarak merkeze alan ancak ırk, milliyet, etnik kimlik, din, sosyal yerleşke, yöre, coğrafi yerleşke, yeterlilik, yetersizlik, engelli olma durumu gibi birbiri içine kenetlenen sosyal yönlerini önemsemeyen, küçük gören bakış açısını eleştiren Kimberle Crenshaw’ın “kesişimsellik” kavramı bu çalışmanın temel hususudur. Crenshaw’ın ataerkilliği kesişen, itaat idaresi altında olma özelliği olarak kabul etmesine bağlı olarak, “Renk Kadınları” hareketi ataerkillik, ulus, etnik kimlik, sınıf, din, cinsiyet eşitsizliği, göçmenlik statüsü ve Renk Kadınları’nın durumu ile ataerkillik düzeninde bulunduğu yöre arasında birbirine bağlanmış, kenetlenmiş bir bağ olduğunu savunur. Kenara itilip, önemsiz duruma getirilmiş kadınlara Crenshaw’ın kesişimsellik objektifi ile bakmak sonucunda, Renk Kadınları’nın ırk, ulus, sınıf, etnik kimlik, din, göçmenlik durumu, yöresellik ve diğer sosyal niteliklerin kesişimselliğinde zarar görmüş özellikleri, durumu temsil edilecektir ve onların haklarının savunucusu olacaktır. Dünya üzerinde güç sahibi olan insanlar ne zaman dünyayı kendi düşünceleri ile kontrol altına almaya çalışsa, edebiyat Renk Kadınları’nın savunma kalkanı haline gelir. Üçüncü Dünya ülkelerindeki akademik çalışmalar sayesinde, etnik kimliklerle ilgili olan konular, sınıf, cinsiyet gibi özellikler daha iyi bir şekilde çalışılabilinir, tartışılabilinir ve Renk Kadınları’nın sorunsalları sınırdan merkeze taşınabilir.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Renk Kadınları, Kimberle Crenshaw, Kesişimsellik, Toplumsal Cinsiyet Politikası, Ataerkil, Siyahi Kadınlar

Kaynakça

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