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    It is not the case that All women should be placed into 'sex class' because all women are potentially subject to exploitation of their unpaid housework.

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    • 1.Potential subjection to exploitation is insufficient to constitute a shared class position; actual structural relations of production define class membership (Wright, 1997).
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    • 2.Women in capitalist owner classes materially benefit from the exploitation of other workers, including domestic workers, creating antagonistic rather than shared class interests.
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    • 1.Intersectionality theory (Crenshaw, 1989) establishes that race and class materially differentiate women's relation to domestic labor, as some women's freedom from housework historically depended on other women's coerced labor.
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    • 2.A classificatory scheme grounding shared class membership on 'potential' exploitation obscures these concrete hierarchies and reproduces the universalizing error of second-wave feminist essentialism (Spelman, 1988).
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    • 1.All women are trained into the gender roles of patriarchal wife and motherhood.
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    • 2.Being trained into these roles makes all women potentially those whose unpaid housework can be exploited.
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