Far from it. She laughed at the idea that there was some universal sisterhood wrapping “a unifying ribbon around bourgeois ladies and female proletarians.” Different women had different problems. It was impossible for the wealthy and privileged to understand the lives of ordinary working people, not least when women at the top of society directly benefited from the cheap labor of female servants and factory workers. So, she actively distanced herself from what she saw as the “bourgeois feminism” of the capitalist elites.
