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    Challenges→Gender realism is mistaken because gender cannot be understood independently of race, class, ethnicity, and nationality.

    Women do not all experience womanhood in the same way — their experiences differ significantly based on race and class.

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    Elizabeth Spelman (1988) has influentially argued against gender realism with her particularity argument. Roughly: gender realists mistakenly assume that gender is constructed independently of race, class, ethnicity and nationality. If gender were separable from, for example, race and class in this manner, all women would experience womanhood in the same way. And this is clearly false. For instance, Harris (1993) and Stone (2007) criticise MacKinnon’s view, that sexual objectification is the com

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