The clue is in the hip-shaking, woman-empowering pop songs.
But now Beyonce has confirmed what we knew anyway – she is “a modern-day feminist”.
The stunning megastar, 31, says women should be able to dote on their husbands and children, be clever, successful and sexy and still call themselves feminists.
And, appearing on the cover of Vogue’s May issue in a midriff-baring top and sequinned pencil skirt, the singer, said to be worth £190million, more than proves the point.
“Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything?” the mother-of one asks readers of the fashion bible.
“I’m just a woman and I love being a woman. If you’re attractive then you can’t be sexy, and you can’t be intelligent? What is all of that?... I don’t know .
“That word can be very extreme. But I guess I am a modern-day feminist. I do believe in equality, and that we have a way to go and it’s something that’s pushed aside and something that we have been conditioned to accept. But I’m happily married. I love my husband.”
The lucky man is 43-year-old hip-hop mogul Jay-Z – real name Shawn Carter – and their daughter is Blue Ivy, one.
“I feel like Mrs Carter is who I am, but more bold and more fearless than I’ve ever been,” Beyonce says. “It comes from knowing my purpose and really meeting myself once I saw my child.