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Why does feminism have a problem with defining what a 'woman' is?

To my understanding, some feminist philosophy has difficulty in providing criteria for what it is to be a woman. These philosophers (I was reading Butler in particular) seem to take the large variation of women (stratified over different races, religions, ages, sexualities, and classes) as evidence for anti-essentialist views of women. Obviously in order to do this, philosophers would have to think that 'being female' or 'having a vagina' isn't enough to qualify one as a woman. My question is why are these statement inadequate for a criteria of women?
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Even if we did accept 'being female' and 'having a vagina' as appropriate qualifiers for 'being a woman', that does absolutely nothing to address what it *means* to be a woman. Having a vagina says nothing about the social, cultural, political, economic, and historical relations that constitute the day to day realities of being a woman.