INTERSECTIONALITY THEORY – WOMEN EXPERIENCE OPPRESSION IN VARIOUS FORMS AND LEVELS

The major theme when analyzing the intersectionality theory is the comprehension that women experience oppression in various   forms and levels ( Aptheker, 1989).  Anzaldua (1990) , Anzaldua and Keating (2002), in their analysis observed that these various forms and  levels is that even when women are generally known to experience oppression on the basis of gender, they are oppressed differently by the varied intersections of other arrangements of social inequality.

 Collins (1990) phrased  this type of oppression women go through, “ the matrix of domination”, which does not go beyond the discussions of gender alone, but to other issues of analysis like; class, area of operation, age etc. Andersen (2005) argued that intersectionality theory shows that the sectional operations produces a particular experience of oppression. The analysis went further to acknowledge the fundamental link between ideology and power that allows  dominants to control subordinates by creating  a politics in which difference becomes a conceptual tool for justifying arrangements of oppression.    

 The intersectionality theory in its explanations had  brought out the engagements of women in the global location, kind of work being performed and specific experiences that is attached to that particular job. Here, poor rural women who are in the developing areas like Ebonyi state, and find themselves without other job options , but quarry mining that are privately owned, are introduced to various exploitations. And these women of the third world possess minimal education, poor life skills and then are introduced to inadequate work and working environment.