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The materialist feminist paradigm of intersectionality introduces gendered social relations into intersectional analysis. Being materialist, it exposes what comes before social categories, the relations that constitute them as differentiated, hierarchical, antagonistic and indivisible; being materialist feminist, it investigates the relationship of appropriation that leads to the creation of gender classes as an explanatory factor in the inequalities between men and women. The analysis of the violence to which women are subjected highlights its specific contribution.