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    It is not the case that Feminism must exist both independently and as part of a broader struggle to eradicate all forms of domination.

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    • 1.Feminist goals can be internally incoherent when subordinated to broader coalition agendas that prioritize other forms of oppression.
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    • 2.Historical feminist movements (e.g., suffragism, second-wave feminism) achieved concrete gains precisely by maintaining strategic autonomy from wider liberation struggles.
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    • 3.Tying feminist progress to the eradication of all domination creates an indefinitely deferred liberation, making feminist goals hostage to the slowest-moving struggle.
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    • 1.Liberal feminists from Wollstonecraft to Nussbaum ground women's emancipation in universal individual rights claims, not in structural solidarity across oppressed groups.
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    • 2.If patriarchal domination shares an ideological foundation with racism, it does not follow that the same political strategy must address both simultaneously rather than sequentially.
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    • 1.Patriarchal domination shares an ideological foundation with racism and other forms of group oppression.
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    • 2.Patriarchal domination cannot be eradicated while racism and other systems of group oppression remain intact.
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