The hegemony of the white, middle-class, heterosexual experience of mainstream second-wave feminism in the 1970s meant that minority and marginalized groups felt underrepresented. Multiple perspectives that fell under the rubric of feminism began to appear, and as a result, contemporary feminist criminology began to struggle to maintain society's focus on patriarchal influences (Chesney-Lind and Morash, 2013). The diversity of women's experiences, due to differences in class, race, gender and other sites of inequality, has caused feminist criminologists to begin arguing for an intersectional model (Cain, 1990; Daly, 1993; Daly and Stephens , 1995). According to Scharff (2012), young women are now rejecting previous feminist perspectives due to the great diversity among women. This essay, however, will focus primarily on Black women and their diverse experiences of subordination within Western societies. To begin, the relevance of the intersectional approach will be defined and discussed, followed by the reasons why multiracial feminism is the term preferred by some scholars. We will then examine the multiracial feminist model to understand why it is more useful than previous feminist perspectives. After identifying the importance of race among other social inequalities within an intersectional model, discrimination against Black women in different social positions will be discussed to explain why the multiracial approach should be integrated into contemporary feminist criminology. CritiqueFeminist criminology's long-standing commitment has been to deconstruct male prejudice rooted in criminology and the criminal justice system, but, as some commentators have pointed out, then... middle of paper... in experiences of subordination between races can lead the reader to believe that race is at the bottom of a hierarchy, suggesting that all forms of oppression are not equal after all. However, some argue that a feminist criminology is entirely irrelevant because focusing on women breaking the law for different reasons than men is related to biological positivism (Carlen, 1990b). Noticing the differences between men and women could potentially lead to a reductionist view, that women are less comparable to men. However, without identifying the differences between men and women and highlighting the impact that race has on other social inequalities, a feminist criminology could not succeed in the contemporary era. Otherwise a traditional white male criminology will continue to prevail, with women judged against a law constructed by men for men's deviant behavior..