White women who enact white feminism want gender inequality acknowledged and addressed, and in this way differentiate their experience from the experience of men. At the same time, they use the category “women” as if there is one shared collective experience of womanhood, while using their own as a reference point. A cogent example of universalizing womanhood occurred when I was leading an affinity group for white women. They were asked to brainstorm a list of white advantages. As one group finished sharing their list, which included advantages such as representation in media, not being
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