In chapters five, six, and seven, Corrin covers black, lesbian, and disability-oriented feminism. She notes that these sets of theories arose from women's exclusion from mainstream women's organizations, often dominated by those of privilege. The process of coming to claim a separate existence under identity politics when difference does not seem to be acknowledged or validated in feminist organizations is central to defining black, lesbian, and disability feminism. The claiming of a separate identities also often means that groups must work in coalitions, an opportunity and difficulty covered in these three chapters. Coalition politics is presented in chapter five as beneficial to black feminism.
Black feminists produce coalitions against racist state policies.
Lesbian organizing mobilizes against a patriarchal state. Corrin includes heartening examples of coalition mobilizing within and among these groups internationally. Nonetheless, in chapter six and seven Corrin acknowleges that identity-based politics have caused difficulties in the formation of coalitions. For example, in many lesbian communities, Corrin notes that women felt pressure to show a strength of lesbian unity to confront patriarchy. The long-term result was that as the movement matured differences in priorities began to be evident within homosexual rights movement.