Men's Group

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It arose as a critique of Marxism and represents a paradigmatic shift. There is no dialectic goal of synthesis. It deconstructs language and culture in an effort to understand multiple ways in which power produces subjects. Unlike Marxism, It is not based on class struggle or the idea of history advancing in ways that creates revolutionary and structural changes in society. One critique might be that it probes cultural meanings without offering solutions.

I also don't think your example above captures the idea of a Marxist-Hegelian dialectic. Historical change is, for Marx, revolutionary, not evolutionary. Voting rights, it seems to me, do not qualify since they represents no fundamental change in mode of production or class relations.
The central role of class in Marxist analysis in general confounds efforts to understand gender and race within a Marxist framework.