Liberal reforms add expectations without removing the demand to be feminine

Evidence

Today, thanks to feminism’s breakthroughs, it is becoming more and more normal to encourage her to pursue her education, to devote herself to sports; but she is more easily excused for not succeeding; success is made more difficult for her as another kind of accomplishment is demanded of her: she must at least also be a woman; she must not lose her femininity. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 692

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Liberalism shifts expectations from confidence to trust but neglects the confidence that participation requires; Conflicting expectations of equality and otherness produce women’s lack of balance — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 668; Pious women’s conflicts with authority do not reduce to gender-equality arguments. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 121 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Conflicting expectations of equality and otherness produce women’s lack of balance #corroborates (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 668
• Reform discourse recast women’s domestic power as backwardness to be disciplined by the state #expands (0.78) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 365
• Liberalism shifts expectations from confidence to trust but neglects the confidence that participation requires #complicates (0.75)
• Pious women’s conflicts with authority do not reduce to gender-equality arguments. #qualifies (0.72) — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 121