Now I& #39;ve got my mark back I feel confident to share one of the key arguments I make in my dissertation.

"I am troubled by an occasional feminist tendency to define the category of & #39;woman& #39; solely through the conditions of their own oppression" 1/5

"While on the surface an anti-essentialist argument, if we locate & #39;womanhood& #39; entirely on the condition of sharing particular oppressions, we risk trapping women in a state of permanent oppression lest womanhood itself be annihilated through the very act of emancipation" 2/5

"Freedom from oppression as a woman when & #39;woman& #39; is defined by oppression becomes an impossible contradiction, defeated before she has begun" 3/5

"Why do we have gendered spaces? Are they to & #39;protect the vulnerable& #39; and if so, what systemic work are we doing to prevent those vulnerabilities in the first place? Or are they to provide freedom for those bodies & #39;not at home in the world& #39; (Ahmed, 2017:15)" 4/5

"how can the discussion around single gendered spaces transcend narratives of & #39;protection from...& #39; in favour of & #39;freedom to...& #39;?" 5/5