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    Women constitute a 'sex class' (or gender class) that cut... — Carmelics
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    Women constitute a 'sex class' (or gender class) that cuts across economic class lines.

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    • 1.Gendered exploitation in the system of meeting human needs is a structural feature affecting all women.
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    • 2.This structural exploitation affects women regardless of their economic class position.
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    • 1.Economic class position fundamentally determines one's relationship to exploitation, such that a wealthy woman's material interests structurally align with those of men of her class against working-class women.
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    • 2.If class position governs the concrete conditions of oppression, then cross-class female solidarity presupposes a shared interest that the material evidence consistently undermines.
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    • 1.Intersectionality theory (Crenshaw, 1989) demonstrates that race, class, and gender produce qualitatively distinct—not merely additive—forms of oppression that cannot be unified under a single axis.
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    • 2.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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    Ferguson argues that the “sex/affective” work of mothering and wifely nurturing is exploitative of women: women give more nurturance and satisfaction (including sexual satisfaction) to men and children than they receive, and do much more of the work of providing these important human goods (cf. also Bartky 1990). The gendered division of labor has both economic and psychological consequences, since women’s caring labor creates women less capable of or motivated to separate from others, and hence
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