Reading Comprehension

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.

14. 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

OA is B

my Answer is C

based on the last paragraph
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

why B??

Thanks
Su_gmat

su_gmat wrote: OA is B

my Answer is C

based on the last paragraph
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

why B??

Thanks
Su_gmat

Pay close attention to what that sentence says: "subordinating women's emancipation to what they considered the more important goal of liberating the entire Russian population." This refers to prioritizing GENERAL liberation rather than the particular liberation of women. In other words, the larger aim (general liberation) was more important than the smaller aim (instating rights for women). That is different from liberating women and such liberation leading to general emancipation.

su_gmat wrote: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.

14. 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

Vocabulary to decipher
Concurred = Agree
Precedence = Come Before ( My child's needs takes precedence over mine)