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Recent feminist scholarship concerning the United States in the 1920s challenges earlier interpretations that assessed the 1920s in terms of the unkept “promises” of the women’s suffrage movement. This new scholarship disputes the long-held view that because a women’s voting bloc did not materialize after women gained the right 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 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-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 1920s as a period of decline. After suffrage, they argue, the feminist movement lost its cohesiveness, and gender consciousness waned. After the mid-1920s, few successes could be claimed by feminist reformers: little could be seen in the way of legislative victories.
During this decade, however, there was intense activism aimed at achieving increased autonomy for women, 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 of citizenship, including the right to hold office and the right to serve on juries.
The passage is primarily concerned with
providing evidence indicating that feminist reformers of the 1920s failed to reach some of their goals
presenting scholarship that contrasts suffragist “promises” with the historical realities of the 1920s
discussing recent scholarship concerning the achievements of women’s suffrage during the 1920s and presenting an alternative view of those achievements
outlining recent findings concerning events leading to suffrage for women in the 1920s 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 1920s
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正确答案是 C。因为文章指出，最近的女权主义学术研究挑战以前对 20 世纪 20 年代关于妇女参政权承诺未实现的解释，并提出一种不同的看法，即妇女参政权在长期的政治上带来了妇女的收益，同时反对妇女参政权失败的观点。因此，C 选项最能概述文章的主要涵义，它指出文中提出的最近学术研究，关于 20 世纪 20 年代妇女参政权的成就以及对这些成就的另一种看法。
文章内容范围：女权。。。具体是女性投票权。
看到这类文章表示非常恶心！！！调整呼吸，认知做。GMAT真的是专门来挑事恶心人的。
原文分段大意：
第一段。feminist scholars 反对老观点。
反对的出发点：the unkept “promises” of the women’s suffrage movement
女权学者的反对内容：1）女性投票权没有物化，投票权没有为女性获取长期政治收益；2）suffrage a failure for not delivering on the promise。
概括起来就是女权学者反对旧观点认为投票没有gain，没有deliver on the promise。
但是被问到“Asked whether women’s suffrage was a failure”，这些女权学者很“哲学”含糊的说：“Why don’t you ask if suffrage in general is failing?”
第二段。这些学者让步however承认：In some ways, however, these scholars still present the 1920s as a period of decline.
这些女权学者认为：the feminist movement lost its cohesiveness, and gender consciousness waned（苍白）.
然后黑体讲了当时的历史事实。
第三段。又是讲当时的历史，大意是activism, women's organizations怎么争取女权。
During this decade, however, there was intense activism aimed at achieving increased autonomy for women,…… Women’s organizations worked to ……
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概括大意：
第一段。近期女权学者对以前的老观点提出反对，但是被直接问到女性投票是不是失败，这些女权学者又支支吾吾。
第二段。然后这些女权学者仍然表示女性投票的一些decline。
第三段。将历史上一些群体怎么为女性争取权利。
这篇文章恶心的地方在于，文章讨论的group观点含糊、作者本身也没观点——整篇文章就是指出有这么一些废物feminist scholars，然后提出一些没有任何见地的想法。
有一个group（feminist scholars）反对老观点，但是又没有新观点，而且某些地方还与反对的内容相反（still present）
然后文章作者最后又写了一些事实——也没有任何立场观点，也看不出来是想支撑上文哪部分内容，支撑新观点还是反对新观点。
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选项分析。
A ……failed to reach some of their goals
这是一篇没有立场的文章，全文就是在讨论是不是failure，最终都没有观点，这个选项旗帜鲜明地说fail，与原文不符。
B presenting scholarship that contrasts suffragist “promises” with the historical realities of the 1920s
--contrasts suffragist “promises” 女权学者并不是反对suffragist “promises”
-- with the historical realities of the 1920s 也不对，虽然最后一段有历史，但是不是为了present scholarship
C discussing recent scholarship concerning the achievements of women’s suffrage during the 1920s and presenting an alternative view of those achievements
-- 个人觉得难点在于alternative view 不知道是不是指女权学者本身
D outlining recent findings concerning events leading to suffrage for women in the 1920s and presenting a challenge to those findings
---- 这个选项比较难。 recent findings错误，因为并没有findings，尤其选项说是leading to……即suffrage本身的finding。但文章其实是女权学者的opinion。没有findings。present challenge to……这就很迷惑了，因为recent的只有女权学者的opinion， 文章没有其他内容challenge女权学者了。
E providing support for a traditional view of the success
--没有support old view
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