Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase for each of the blanks.Feminism, collective term for systems of belief and theories that pay special (24)_________to women’s rights and women’s position in culture and society. The term tends to be used for the women’s rights movement, which began in the late 18th century and continues to campaign for complete political, social, and economic equality between women ...

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase for each of the blanks.

Feminism, collective term for systems of belief and theories that pay special (24)_________to women’s rights and women’s position in culture and society. The term tends to be used for the women’s rights movement, which began in the late 18th century and continues to campaign for complete political, social, and economic equality between women and men. This article (25)_________specifically with the development of the ideas behind that movement and their (26)_________and impact.

Feminists are united by the idea that women’s position in society is unequal to (27)_________of men, and that society is structured in such a way as to benefit men to the political, social, economic (28) _________of women. However, feminists have used different theories to explain these (29)_________and have advocated different ways of redressing inequalities, and there are marked geographic and historical variations in the nature of feminism.

Historically, feminist thought and activity can be divided into two waves. The first wave, which began in about 1800 and (30)_________until the 1930s, was largely concerned with gaining equal rights between women and men. The second wave, which began in the late 1960s, has continued to fight for (31)_________but has also developed a (32)_________of theories and approaches that stress the difference between women and men and that draw attention to the (33)_________needs of women.Question 25