examine the following excerpt from emmeline pankhurst’s speech “why we are militant.” what reasoning does the author use to call for women to fight for political rights?

to men women are not human beings like themselves. some men think we are superhuman; they put us on pedestals; they revere us; they think we are too fine and too delicate to come down into the hurly-burly of life. other men think us sub-human; they think we are a strange species unfortunately having to exist for the perpetuation of the race. they think that we are fit for drudgery, but that in some strange way our minds are not like theirs, our love for great things is not like theirs, and so we are a sort of sub-human species. . . .

when we were patient, when we believed in argument and persuasion, they said, “you don’t really want it because, if you did, you would do something unmistakable to show you were determined to have it.” and then when we did something unmistakable they said, “you are behaving so badly that you show you are not fit for it.”

now, gentlemen, in your heart of hearts you do not believe that. . . . you know perfectly well that if the situation were reversed, if you had no constitutional rights and we had all of them, if you had the duty of paying and obeying and trying to look as pleasant, and we were the proud citizens who could decide our fate and yours, because we knew what was good for you better than you knew yourselves, you know perfectly well that you wouldn’t stand for it a single day, and you would be perfectly justified in rebelling against such intolerable conditions.¹

¹ emmeline pankhurst, “why we are militant” (1913), from the digital history reader, accessed december 15, 2013, http://www.dhr.history.utexas.edu/modules/reu/mod02_vote/evidence_detail_03.htm.

a. she claims that men should place women on pedestals by offering them their rights.

b. she argues that it is men, rather than women, who deserve more limited political rights.

c. she tells men to imagine how they would react if the political system were biased against them.

d. she argues that men claim they would fight for their rights, but that they are actually too cowardly

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examine the following excerpt from emmeline pankhurst’s speech “why we are militant.” what reasoning does the author use to call for women to fight for political rights?

to men women are not human beings like themselves. some men think we are superhuman; they put us on pedestals; they revere us; they think we are too fine and too delicate to come down into the hurly-burly of life. other men think us sub-human; they think we are a strange species unfortunately having to exist for the perpetuation of the race. they think that we are fit for drudgery, but that in some strange way our minds are not like theirs, our love for great things is not like theirs, and so we are a sort of sub-human species. . . .

when we were patient, when we believed in argument and persuasion, they said, “you don’t really want it because, if you did, you would do something unmistakable to show you were determined to have it.” and then when we did something unmistakable they said, “you are behaving so badly that you show you are not fit for it.”

now, gentlemen, in your heart of hearts you do not believe that. . . . you know perfectly well that if the situation were reversed, if you had no constitutional rights and we had all of them, if you had the duty of paying and obeying and trying to look as pleasant, and we were the proud citizens who could decide our fate and yours, because we knew what was good for you better than you knew yourselves, you know perfectly well that you wouldn’t stand for it a single day, and you would be perfectly justified in rebelling against such intolerable conditions.¹

¹ emmeline pankhurst, “why we are militant” (1913), from the digital history reader, accessed december 15, 2013, http://www.dhr.history.utexas.edu/modules/reu/mod02_vote/evidence_detail_03.htm.

a. she claims that men should place women on pedestals by offering them their rights.

b. she argues that it is men, rather than women, who deserve more limited political rights.

c. she tells men to imagine how they would react if the political system were biased against them.

d. she argues that men claim they would fight for their rights, but that they are actually too cowardly

Accepted Answer

# Answer:
C. She tells men to imagine how they would react if the political system were biased against them.
# Brief Explanations:
- Option A: The passage shows men's views of putting women on pedestals as a negative perception (treating them as non - human), not something she claims men should do to give rights. So A is incorrect.
- Option B: The author is advocating for women's political rights, not saying men deserve more limited rights. So B is incorrect.
- Option C: In the passage, she asks men to imagine a reversed situation where women have rights and men don't, and how men would react. This is a key part of her reasoning to argue for women's right to fight for political rights. So C is correct.
- Option D: The passage does not discuss men being cowardly in fighting for their rights. It focuses on men's inconsistent views of women and uses the reverse situation to make her point. So D is incorrect.

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