Question

question
how did the womens movement in the 1890s both expand freedom and narrow its boundaries?
select an answer
a. feminists sought and won more opportunities for white women, while denying the same for blacks and immigrants.
b. feminists supported the immigration of wives and daughters of recent chinese immigrants but demanded that they carry identification papers.
c. women won a degree of economic and political reforms, but they acquiesced in being defined as weak and dependent.
d. women won control over their own wages, but they found job opportunities even more limited owing to reactionary employers.

Explanation:

In the 1890s women's movement, women achieved some economic and political reforms which expanded their freedom. However, by acquiescing to being defined as weak and dependent, they narrowed the boundaries of their freedom in terms of self - perception and societal perception. Option A focuses on racial and immigrant discrimination rather than the general expansion and narrowing of freedom for women themselves. Option B is about a specific immigration - related stance and not the main way freedom was expanded and narrowed. Option D mainly emphasizes the limitation of job opportunities rather than the dual aspect of freedom expansion and boundary narrowing as comprehensively as option C.

Answer:

C. Women won a degree of economic and political reforms, but they acquiesced in being defined as weak and dependent.