Conceptual framework developed theoretically by Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989) based on the need to study the overlap of various strands of oppression, discrimination and dominance experienced by certain social identities and groups on the basis of sex, gender, class, ethnicity, physical constitution, origin, religion, (dis)ability, language and age, among others. Applying this perspective, Black American feminism sought to challenge the supposedly universalist feminism of white Western women. Crenshaw showed that the oppressions experienced by black women in the United States were different from those experienced by white women and black men, in that they encompassed two intersecting forms of oppression that the latter groups did not suffer. In addressing male violence and its cultural representations, it is key to adopt an intersectional perspective in order to identify how various biological, social and cultural categories interact, modifying injustices and inequalities towards a person or group.
Crenshaw, Kimberlé (1989). «Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine». University of Chicago Legal Forum, 139–167.