[求助]GWD-11-35

Recent feminist scholarship con-

       cerning the United States in the 1920’s

       challenges earlier interpretations that

Line       assessed the twenties in terms of the

  (5)      unkept “promises” of the women’s

suffrage movement.  This new scholar-

ship disputes the long-held view that

because a women’s voting bloc did not

materialize after women gained the right

(10)      to vote in 1920, suffrage failed to

produce long-term political gains for

women.  These feminist scholars also

challenge the old view that pronounced

suffrage a failure for not delivering on

(15)      the promise that the women’s vote

would bring about moral, corruption-

free governance.  Asked whether

women’s suffrage was a failure, these

scholars cite the words of turn-of-the-

(20)      century social reformer Jane Addams,

       “Why don’t you ask if suffrage in

       general is failing?”

      In some ways, however, these

scholars still present the 1920’s as a

(25)      period of decline.  After suffrage, they

argue, the feminist movement lost its

cohesiveness, and gender conscious-

ness waned.  After the mid-1920’s, few

successes could be claimed by fem-

(30)      inist reformers: little could be seen in

the way of legislative victories.

      During this decade, however, there

       was intense activism aimed at achiev-

ing increased autonomy for women,

(35)    broadening the spheres within which

they lived their daily lives.  Women’s

organizations worked to establish

opportunities for women: they strove to

      secure for women the full entitlements

(40)     of citizenship, including the right to hold

office and the right to serve on juries.

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Q35:

The passage is primarily concerned with

providing evidence indicating that feminist reformers of the 1920’s failed to reach some of their goals

presenting scholarship that contrasts suffragist “promises” with the historical realities of the 1920’s

discussing recent scholarship concerning the achievements of women’s suffrage during the 1920’s and presenting an alternative view of those achievements

outlining recent findings concerning events leading to suffrage for women in the 1920’s and presenting a challenge to those findings

providing support for a traditional view of the success of feminist attempts to increase gender consciousness among women during the 1920’s

请问NN，这道主题题的答案到底是B，C还是D？