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    Challenges→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.

    Unitary gender notions treat women as a homogeneous group without accounting for these differences.

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    Butler’s normativity argument makes two claims. The first is akin to Spelman’s particularity argument: unitary gender notions fail to take differences amongst women into account thus failing to recognise “the multiplicity of cultural, social, and political intersections in which the concrete array of ‘women’ are constructed” (Butler 1999, 19–20). In their attempt to undercut biologically deterministic ways of defining what it means to be a woman, feminists inadvertently created new socially cons

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