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    A framework that obscures the political production of bod... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Feminists should give up the sex/gender distinction on practical political grounds.

    A framework that obscures the political production of bodies cannot ground the transformative legal claims feminist justice requires.

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    • 1.Legal frameworks ignoring how power structures shape bodies (through labor, reproduction, medicine) cannot address root causes of gendered harm.
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    • 2.Transformative justice requires understanding systems that produce inequality, not just individual rights language that obscures structural production.
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    • 3.Feminist legal wins requiring body autonomy (abortion, workplace safety) depend on exposing how bodies are politically constructed and controlled.
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    • 1.Some feminist legal victories (property rights, bodily autonomy) succeeded using frameworks that didn't explicitly theorize political body production.
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    • 2.Claiming a framework 'obscures' political production conflates visibility of an issue with the framework's actual capacity to ground justice claims.
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    • 3.Practical legal remedies (tort law, criminal penalties) can protect bodies effectively without requiring comprehensive theories of body production.
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