Multiracial Feminism
Heather Hogue
9/12/2015
CRMJ348-001
Response Paper #1 Introduction:
The authors, Sharon Love and Seong Park, of (“Images of Gender Twenty Years Later”) extend findings twenty years later to research originally compiled by Baro and Eigenberg who analyzed gender being depicted in introductory criminal justice and criminology textbooks. Women are mostly depicted as victims rather than professionals in criminal justice or even criminals. But, I noticed in another text, (“Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Crime”) by Amanda Burgess-Proctor, she explains different types of feminism/feminist criminology that intersect gender, race, and class. She believes multiracial feminism will guarantee a better future for women in criminology/criminal justice.
I argue that feminist criminology has come a long way/evolved with the 3 waves/eras of feminism, the different types of feminism, and multiracial feminism.
• 3 waves/eras of feminism:
The first wave of feminism began in the United States in the mid-late 1800’s. In this era, women were being treated more like property and trying to …show more content…
This perspective is also known as intersectionality theory and multicultural feminism. Multiracial feminism is preferred because it explains how race is a power system that interacts with other inequalities to shape the genders. But, the main focus is on engaging the multiple inequalities. Multiracial feminism has some key concepts that make it stand out from other feminist perspectives. First, multiracial feminism shows that men and women are characterized not only by gender but their race, class, sexuality, age, physical ability, and etc. Next, the matrix of domination puts everyone into a broad perspective, but everyone has different experiences. Then, there’s a concept called relationality, which means women’s differences are connected in systematic
9/12/2015
CRMJ348-001
Response Paper #1 Introduction:
The authors, Sharon Love and Seong Park, of (“Images of Gender Twenty Years Later”) extend findings twenty years later to research originally compiled by Baro and Eigenberg who analyzed gender being depicted in introductory criminal justice and criminology textbooks. Women are mostly depicted as victims rather than professionals in criminal justice or even criminals. But, I noticed in another text, (“Intersections of Race, Class, Gender, and Crime”) by Amanda Burgess-Proctor, she explains different types of feminism/feminist criminology that intersect gender, race, and class. She believes multiracial feminism will guarantee a better future for women in criminology/criminal justice.
I argue that feminist criminology has come a long way/evolved with the 3 waves/eras of feminism, the different types of feminism, and multiracial feminism.
• 3 waves/eras of feminism:
The first wave of feminism began in the United States in the mid-late 1800’s. In this era, women were being treated more like property and trying to …show more content…
This perspective is also known as intersectionality theory and multicultural feminism. Multiracial feminism is preferred because it explains how race is a power system that interacts with other inequalities to shape the genders. But, the main focus is on engaging the multiple inequalities. Multiracial feminism has some key concepts that make it stand out from other feminist perspectives. First, multiracial feminism shows that men and women are characterized not only by gender but their race, class, sexuality, age, physical ability, and etc. Next, the matrix of domination puts everyone into a broad perspective, but everyone has different experiences. Then, there’s a concept called relationality, which means women’s differences are connected in systematic