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.
35.
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

37.
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
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i agree with A for 37, but i would have said B for 35

35. b
37. a

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The highlighed make sense, valuable for me!
Thanks millions to all of you!

OA is
35. B
37.A
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" 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.

where is question 36? ( which is Primarily propose question type)

does any one has the OA to Q36?
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This is a easy question, because question stem is asking about "disagreement" between 2 groups. All information are provided in fist paragraph. Only (A) match to the requirement. From (B) to (E) are "agreement", which provided in second paragraph. Following is my reasoning.

B: such as access to education, career opportunities, and legal equality.
S: as the principal source of women's inequality and oppression, and socialist revolution, not legal reform, as the only road to emancipation and equality.

Hi Ranjeet,

Initially I also opted for C, but by reading forum I got it.

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.

The clause "In subordinating WE to most important goal of liberation of entire Russian population" shows that both BF and SF believed in this ,so this is the point of agreement between the two.

Hope that helps

Rgds,
Saurabh
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The passage is primarily concerned with
(A) identifying points of agreement between two
groups
(B) advocating one approach to social reform over
another
(C) contrasting two approaches to solving a political
problem
(D) arguing that the views espoused by one political
group were more radical than those espoused by
another group
(E) criticizing historians for overlooking similarities
between the views espoused by two superficially
dissimilar groups

the above question is of the same passage
why 'C' is wrong?