RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Glumbíková, Kateřina
A1 Gřundělová, Barbora
A1 Gojová, Alice
T1 The Intersectionality of Oppression Experienced by Single Mothers in Homeless Shelters
JF Gender a výzkum / Gender and Research
YR 2018
VO 19
IS 2
SP 163
OP 181
DO 10.13060/25706578.2018.19.2.430
UL https://genderonline.cz/en/artkey/gav-201802-0008.php
AB This paper deals with how the intersectionality of oppression manifests in narratives of single mothers with experience residing in a homeless shelter. Oppression is of a structural nature and single mothers from homeless shelters encounter it in various forms and on various levels. Using a qualitative research strategy, in particular a participatory approach, it has been found that oppression is ever-present in the narratives of homeless mothers, and that their living experience can only be understood through the intermingling and intersecting of different forms of oppression, such as gender, motherhood, lone- parent families, andthe interrelated poor socio-economic situations, ethnicity, and homelessness. This intersecting of different forms of oppression leads to disabled identities, that resulting in segregation, marginaliszation, or social exclusion.