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.