 In particular, women were only discussed in literature and poetry classes while men were also discussed in serious politics and economics.Crenshaw's focus on intersectionality is on how the law responds to issues that include gender and race discrimination.The particular challenge in law is that antidiscrimination laws look at gender and race separately and consequently African-American women and other women of color experience overlapping forms of discrimination and the law, unaware of how to combine the two, leaves these women with no justice.