prep3 essay 5 question14.15

lucifer188

Essay #5.  118      (21825-!-item-!-188;#058&00118-00)

 

Historians have identified two dominant currents in the Russian women's movement of the late tsarist period.  "Bourgeois" feminism, so called by its more radical opponents, emphasized "individualist" feminist goals such as access to education, career opportunities, and legal equality.  "Socialist" feminists, by contrast, emphasized class, rather than gender, as the principal source of women's inequality and oppression, and socialist revolution, not legal reform, as the only road to emancipation and equality.

 

However, despite antagonism between bourgeois feminists and socialist feminists, the two movements shared certain underlying beliefs.  Both regarded paid labor as the principal means by which women might attain emancipation:  participation in the workplace and economic self-sufficiency, they believed, would make women socially useful and therefore deserving of equality with men.  Both groups also recognized the enormous difficulties women faced when they combined paid labor with motherhood.  In fact, at the First All-Russian Women's Congress in 1908, most participants advocated maternity insurance and paid maternity leave, although the intense hostility between some socialists and bourgeois feminists at the Congress made it difficult for them to recognize these areas of agreement.  Finally, socialist feminists and most bourgeois feminists concurred in subordinating women's emancipation to what they considered the more important goal of liberating the entire Russian population from political oppression, economic backwardness, and social injustice.

 

Question #14.  118-03  (21871-!-item-!-188;#058&000118-03)

 

The passage suggests that socialists within the Russian women's movement and most bourgeois feminists believed that in Russia

 

(A) women would not achieve economic equality until they had political representation within the government

(B) the achievement of larger political aims should take precedence over the achievement of women's rights

(C) the emancipation of women would ultimately bring about the liberation of the entire Russian population from political oppression

(D) women's oppression was more rooted in economic inequality than was the case in other countries

(E) the women's movement was more ideologically divided than were women's movements in other countries

 

Question #15.  118-05  (21917-!-item-!-188;#058&000118-05)

 

The passage is primarily concerned with

 

(A) identifying points of agreement between two groups

(B) advocating one approach to social reform over another

(C) contrasting two approaches to solving a political problem

(D) arguing that the views espoused by one political group were more radical than those espoused by another group

(E) criticizing historians for overlooking similarities between the views espoused by two superficially dissimilar groups

14题我选C答案选B，15题我选C答案选A   哪位大侠解释一下呢，谢了

lucifer188

自己顶一下

xiaoyejv

我不是大侠，但是昨天我做了这个题，就再这里抛砖引玉一下吧。

第14题的定位点在这里：socialist feminists and most bourgeois feminists concurred in subordinating women's emancipation to what they considered the more important goal of liberating the entire Russian population from political oppression, economic backwardness, and social injustice. 关键词是subordinate,就是说goal of liberating the entire Russian population比women's emancipation更重要，也就是B的改写，所以选B

第15题是主旨题，但是However, despite antagonism between bourgeois feminists and socialist feminists, the two movements shared certain underlying beliefs说明文章的重点在谈两者的相同之处，也是就A。

请NN指正

lucifer188

谢了，现在懂了，呵呵