Essay
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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 #16.
118-06
According to the passage, Russian socialists
within the women's movement and most bourgeois feminists disagreed about which
of the following?
(A) Whether legal reform was central to the
achievement of feminist goals
(B) Whether paid employment was important for the
achievement of equality
(C) Whether maternity insurance was desirable for
working mothers
(D) Whether working mothers faced obstacles
(E) Whether women's emancipation should be
subordinated to the liberation of the Russian population 答案选A,为什么不选C。是不是因为文中关于maternity insurance只是some不同意,而most是同意的。见文中红色标注的部分。 |