<p>On the old BB it’s page 863 question 13… on the new BB it’s the last practice test, section 6, question 13…</p>
<p>The question refers to a sentence in the passage that says, “Northern women who sought improvement in their own condition clung to the discourses of true womanhood and domesticity to make their case.”</p>
<p>the question asks, which of the following might be an argument used by women attempting to improve their condition… and i don’t know how you can get the answer (B. Women who are granted more personal liberties become better mothers) from that sentence or the passage. </p>
<p>I have the answer explanation for this question from College Board but i didn’t understand their explanation.</p>
<p>I’d be grateful if someone can really explain this to me. Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Because motherhood is a “discourse of true womanhood” and therefore by saying it would make them better mothers, it would be clinging to the discourses of true womanhood. It’s not really that hard to understand IMO.</p>
<p>That means Northern women, wanting to diminish the inequalities between men and women, rather than choosing rhe individualism route i.e. people should be treated as individual and not based on any gender group, chose instead to appeal to the ‘womanhood and domesticity’ to achieve their goals as they still believed in the inherent differences between men and women. Who is a ‘domestic woman’? A mother of course. So the answer is D as Northern women could use the image of a mother to advance their cause (women having personal liberties). I hope this is a reasonable explanation.</p>
<p>i just couldn’t infer that “discourses of true womanhood and domesticity” meant motherhood. I guess making that inference is the hard part. What does discourse mean in this context… discourse of true domesticity?</p>