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- This does not mean that every member of an oppressed group has less power than every member of a dominant group, of course. Obviously, there are some very powerful women in society. It is that women, collectively, have less power than men collectively (and similarly, people of color have less power than white people, people with disabilities have less power than those without disabilities, and so on). Indeed, it is the relative power of groups— rather than of each individual member— that is at issue here.
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- Ibid.
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