How Did the Goals of Middle-Class Feminists Differ from Those

question 48

Multiple Choice

How did the goals of middle-class feminists differ from those of socialist women?

• A)Middle-class women believed that women's liberation required greater access to educational opportunities, while socialist women emphasized the need of women to support men on the barricades.
• B)Middle-class women supported the efforts to obtain economic rights for women, while socialist women fought for an expansion of the welfare state.
• C)Middle-class women fought for the right to vote, while socialist women argued that women's liberation could only occur as part of a working-class revolution.
• D)Middle-class women endorsed the separate spheres theory in order to enhance women's power in the home, while socialists emphasized the need to empower women in the workplace immediately.

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