In American mythology, the dire wolf is a menacing creature with fierce eyes and steel-like fangs, lurking in the darkness and in the song, Dire Wolf, concertized by Grateful Dead. However, real dire wolves roamed America until about 9000 years ago.Probably the likeness shown here is as accurate as any ever drawn.n American mythology, the dire wolf is a menacing creature with fierce eyes and steel-like fangs, lurking in the darkness and in the song, Dire Wolf, concertized by Grateful Dead. However, real dire wolves roamed America until about 9000 years ago. Probably the likeness shown here is as accurate as any ever drawn.
Intersectionality (or intersectional theory) is a term first coined in 1989 by American civil rights advocate and leading scholar of critical race theory, KimberlÃ© Williams Crenshaw. It is the study of overlapping or intersecting social identities and related systems of oppression, domination, or discrimination.
Abstract. 1  Intersectionality, the mutually constitutive relations among social identities, is a central tenet of feminist thinking and has transformed how gender is conceptualized in research. In this special issue, we focus on the intersectionality perspective in empirical research on gender.