Women Oppression Through Intersectionality: A Case Study from Somboon, A Woman Life’s Experience

Women Oppression Through Intersectionality: A Case Study from Somboon, A Woman Life’s Experience

Tanya Promburom 

Ph.D., Department of Women’s and Gender Studies,

Faculty of Social Science, Chiang Mai University, Thailand   

Feminist theory is based on the variety of real-life stories women as knowledge. Women are different in terms of intersectionality such as class, education, ethnicity, religion, and so on that impact on their lives’ oppression. This study used a qualitative research method and identified data by using ethnography and narrative. The data was collected from an in-depth interview with a case study, a woman who is from a working-class, and low education. Somboon life’s story is a voice of a woman who had experience with sexual harassment, she was abused by men since she was young until she married, her life also was oppressed from male domination, class, economic, culture, norms as intersecting oppression. However, women can negotiate and have resistance by using some strategies or tactics to negotiate with the power relations in the society. Somboon uses her docile-bodies power, and economic capital strategy to change her life. Women’s life experience is knowledge. We still need more women’s voices and learn from women’s life experiences to bring out gender equality. Then, the demand for women’s voices and life experiences still needs more exploring.

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Reference: 

Promburom, T. “Women Oppression Through Intersectionality: A Case Study from Somboon, A Woman Life’s Experience”. International Gender Conference on Strengthening Understanding of the Impact of Gender Norms and Stereotypes on. Violence Against Women in Greater Mekong Sub Region. 09-10 January 2019. The Lao Plaza Hotel Vientiane Capital, Lao PDR.