Now I'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 'woman' solely through the conditions of their own oppression" 1/5

"While on the surface an anti-essentialist argument, if we locate 'womanhood' 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 'woman' is defined by oppression becomes an impossible contradiction, defeated before she has begun" 3/5

"Why do we have gendered spaces? Are they to 'protect the vulnerable' 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 'not at home in the world' (Ahmed, 2017:15)" 4/5

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