Some Egyptian elite women rejected women’s liberation because it exposed their own powerlessness

Evidence

While black women are often forced by circumstances to act in assertive ways, most black women I talked with as preparation for this book believed men were superior to women and that a degree of submission to male authority was a necessary part of woman’s role. … Much of what has been perceived by whites as an Amazonic trait in black women has been merely stoical acceptance of situations we have been powerless to change. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 239 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
• XREF: connects to: Black women’s apparent strength is often powerless stoicism, not agency — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 239; Women’s resigned prudence made them obstacles to their own class emancipation. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1744

Related

• Black women’s apparent strength is often powerless stoicism, not agency (similarity 0.88)
• Elite Egyptian women resisted their own liberation because it threatened their sense of superiority (similarity 0.87)
• Black women have always been free from femininity’s protective constraints. (similarity 0.82)
• The American public idealized black women embracing roles they rejected (similarity 0.81)
• Women’s resigned prudence made them obstacles to their own class emancipation. (similarity 0.80)
• Enslaved black people internalized their owners’ patriarchal sex roles (similarity 0.80)
• Enslaved women were no more sexually liberated than white women. (similarity 0.79)
• Black men asserted dominance over women to compensate for losing to white men (similarity 0.79)
• Male freedom is incompatible with advocating the subjugation of women (similarity 0.79)
• The strong-black-woman stereotype overrides even passive black women’s conduct (similarity 0.78)
• Black men’s alienation stemmed from Black women having any power at all (similarity 0.78)
• Egyptian elite households ran parallel hierarchies of gender and slave status (similarity 0.78)
• The already-liberated claim actually signals acceptance of sexism. (similarity 0.78)
• Black women’s experiences were ignored and ridiculed as unworthy of study (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Black women’s apparent strength is often powerless stoicism, not agency #corroborates (0.60) — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 239