RC Drill Set 6, Question 5
There are two especially influential interpretations of nineteenth-century(430 more words not shown)
It can be inferred from(28 more words not shown)
- Aminimized the contribution(13 more words not shown)
- Bignored the philosophical(12 more words not shown)
- Coverlooked the disadvantages(9 more words not shown)
- Dmisread the degree(10 more words not shown)
- Eunderestimated the potential(11 more words not shown)
Reading the passage
What do the feminist historians think the labor historians missed? The labor account blames privileged women for ignoring working women's hardships. The next paragraph supplies legitimate reasons to mistrust the laws themselves: they could exclude women from jobs and preserve their unpaid labor at home.
What we’re looking for
So I'd expect an overlooked reason for opposition, rather than another claim that the feminists were simply selfish.
Working the answers
- A
The newer research doesn't seek credit for enlightened middle-class supporters who helped pass the laws. It reveals interests and harms the earlier accounts missed.
- B
The shift toward a protective state belongs to the liberal legal framework. It isn't the feminist historians' identified omission about women's perceptions.
- CCorrect
Exclusion from paid work is a disadvantage to working women, not protection of their interests. The new histories reveal tensions that previous accounts had missed (paragraph 2). That gives us the concrete harm behind our prediction: women had reasons to oppose the laws beyond privileged indifference.
- D
The degree of exclusive focus on suffrage isn't the omission identified by this research. Voting is central to the liberal legal account.
- E
Benefits of political equality also aren't the missing evidence. These historians show how the labor laws themselves could disadvantage women, not how much women stood to gain from voting.
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