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    It is not the case that If Black working-class women face oppressions structurally incommensurable with those of white bourgeois women, then 'sex class' fails as a unifying category because it obscures rather than illuminates the operative mechanisms of domination.

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    • 1.Structural incommensurability doesn't eliminate shared patriarchal oppression; it demonstrates why intersectional analysis *within* sex class remains necessary.
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    • 2.Rejecting 'sex class' altogether risks losing analytical power for understanding gender-specific mechanisms of control affecting all women across strata.
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    • 3.The claim conflates 'unifying category' with 'sufficient explanation'—sex class can illuminate certain domination mechanisms without explaining all forms simultaneously.
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    • 1.Black working-class women experience compounded marginalization from racism, sexism, and class exploitation that white bourgeois women structurally escape.
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    • 2.A unifying category that ignores differential access to material resources and institutional power obscures how domination actually operates in practice.
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    • 3.Theoretical frameworks must account for intersecting systems of oppression or risk reproducing the very hierarchies they claim to challenge.
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