In particular, she
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highlights the ways in which this term is used to homogenize
women’s lives and is also used in a way which always implies
victimhood; ‘Each of these examples [in her chapter] illustrates the
construction of “third world women” as a homogeneous “powerless”
group often located as implicit victims of particular socioeconomic
systems’ (1991: 57, emphasis in the original).