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    It is not the case that Women constitute a 'sex class' (or gender class) that cuts across economic class lines.

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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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    • 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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