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  Line      It is an odd but indisputable fact that the
            seventeenth-century English women who are
            generally regarded as among the forerunners of
            modern feminism are almost all identified with the
    (5)    Royalist side in the conflict between Royalists and
            Parliamentarians known as the English Civil Wars.
            Since Royalist ideology is often associated with the
            radical patriarchalism of seventeenth-century
            political theorist Robert Filmer—a patriarchalism
    (10)    that equates family and kingdom and asserts the
            divinely ordained absolute power of the king and,
            by analogy, of the male head of the household—
            historians have been understandably puzzled by the
            fact that Royalist women wrote the earliest
    (15)    extended criticisms of the absolute subordination
            of women in marriage and the earliest systematic
            assertions of women’s rational and moral equality
            with men. Some historians have questioned the
            facile equation of Royalist ideology with Filmerian
    (20)    patriarchalism; and indeed, there may have been
            no consistent differences between Royalists and
            Parliamentarians on issues of family organization
            and women’s political rights, but in that case one
            would expect early feminists to be equally divided
    (25)    between the two sides.
              Catherine Gallagher argues that Royalism
            engendered feminism because the ideology of
            absolute monarchy provided a transition to an
            ideology of the absolute self. She cites the example
    (30)    of the notoriously eccentric author Margaret
            Cavendish (1626-1673), duchess of Newcastle.
            Cavendish claimed to be as ambitious as any
            woman could be, but knowing that as a woman she
            was excluded from the pursuit of power in the real
    (35)    world, she resolved to be mistress of her own
            world, the "immaterial world" that any person can
            create within her own mind—and, as a writer, on
            paper. In proclaiming what she called her
            "singularity," Cavendish insisted that she was a
    (40)    self-sufficient being within her mental empire, the
            center of her own subjective universe rather than a
            satellite orbiting a dominant male planet. In
            justifying this absolute singularity, Cavendish
            repeatedly invoked the model of the absolute
    (45)    monarch, a figure that became a metaphor for the
            self-enclosed, autonomous nature of the individual
            person. Cavendish’s successors among early
            feminists retained her notion of woman’s sovereign
            self, but they also sought to break free from the
    (50)    complete political and social isolation that her
            absolute singularity entailed.   The author of the passage refers to Robert Filmer (see line 9) primarily in order to

A.show that Royalist ideology was somewhat more radical than most historians appear to realize
B.qualify the claim that patriarchalism formed the basis of Royalist ideology
C.question the view that most early feminists were associated with the Royalist faction
D.highlight an apparent tension between Royalist ideology and the ideas of early feminists
E.argue that Royalists held conflicting opinions on issues of family organization and women’s political rights
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