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    It is not the case that Unitary gender notions fail to adequately represent women as a group because they ignore the multiplicity of cultural, social, and political intersections in which concrete women are constructed.

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    • 1.Women differ from one another across cultural, social, and political dimensions.
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    • 2.Unitary gender notions treat women as a homogeneous group without accounting for these differences.
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    • 1.Kimberlé Crenshaw's intersectionality framework demonstrates that race, class, and gender co-constitute identity in ways no single axis can capture.
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    • 2.Legal and political systems that treat 'woman' as a unitary category systematically exclude Black women, as shown in DeGraffenreid v. General Motors.
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    • 3.A concept that generates systematic exclusions in its application fails as an adequate representational category for the group it purports to define.
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    • 1.Sally Haslanger's ameliorative analysis holds that gender concepts should be evaluated by whether they serve the practical goals of feminist politics.
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    • 2.A unitary gender notion that erases colonial, economic, and racial hierarchies among women cannot serve liberatory politics for all women.
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    • 3.Chandra Mohanty's critique of Western feminism shows that projecting a singular 'Third World woman' reproduces colonial epistemic domination.
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