[Reading Comprehension]
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| Line | It is an odd but indisputable fact that the |
| seventeenth-century English women who are | |
| generally regarded as among the forerunners of | |
| modern feminism are almost all identified with the | |
| (5) | Royalist side in the conflict between Royalists and |
| Parliamentarians known as the English Civil Wars. | |
| Since Royalist ideology is often associated with the | |
| radical patriarchalism of seventeenth-century | |
| political theorist Robert Filmer—a patriarchalism | |
| (10) | that equates family and kingdom and asserts the |
| divinely ordained absolute power of the king and, | |
| by analogy, of the male head of the household— | |
| historians have been understandably puzzled by the | |
| fact that Royalist women wrote the earliest | |
| (15) | extended criticisms of the absolute subordination |
| of women in marriage and the earliest systematic | |
| assertions of women’s rational and moral equality | |
| with men. Some historians have questioned the | |
| facile equation of Royalist ideology with Filmerian | |
| (20) | patriarchalism; and indeed, there may have been |
| no consistent differences between Royalists and | |
| Parliamentarians on issues of family organization | |
| and women’s political rights, but in that case one | |
| would expect early feminists to be equally divided | |
| (25) | between the two sides. |
| Catherine Gallagher argues that Royalism | |
| engendered feminism because the ideology of | |
| absolute monarchy provided a transition to an | |
| ideology of the absolute self. She cites the example | |
| (30) | of the notoriously eccentric author Margaret |
| Cavendish (1626–1673), duchess of Newcastle. | |
| Cavendish claimed to be as ambitious as any | |
| woman could be, but knowing that as a woman she | |
| was excluded from the pursuit of power in the real | |
| (35) | world, she resolved to be mistress of her own |
| world, the “immaterial world” that any person can | |
| create within her own mind—and, as a writer, on | |
| paper. In proclaiming what she called her | |
| “singularity,” Cavendish insisted that she was a | |
| (40) | self-sufficient being within her mental empire, the |
| center of her own subjective universe rather than a | |
| satellite orbiting a dominant male planet. In | |
| justifying this absolute singularity, Cavendish | |
| repeatedly invoked the model of the absolute | |
| (45) | monarch, a figure that became a metaphor for the |
| self-enclosed, autonomous nature of the individual | |
| person. Cavendish’s successors among early | |
| feminists retained her notion of woman’s sovereign | |
| self, but they also sought to break free from the | |
| (50) | complete political and social isolation that her |
| absolute singularity entailed. |
题目：
The primary purpose of the passage is to
选项:
A、trace the historical roots of a modern sociopolitical movement
B、present one scholar’s explanation for a puzzling historical phenomenon
C、contrast two interpretations of the ideological origins of a political conflict
D、establish a link between the ideology of an influential political theorist and that of a notoriously eccentric writer
E、call attention to some points of agreement between opposing sides in an ideological debate
答案:
B
