How did women gaining the right to vote change the portrayal of male and female dynamics in literature? a. it allowed women to enter into politics, which was often reflected in literary plots. b. it gave women more power in society and politics, but in literature men remained more powerful. c. it gave women more power than they previously had, which was portrayed in literary characterizations of women. d. it allowed women to hold important offices at the state and national level, which they were barred from before gaining the right to vote.

c. It gave women more power than they previously had, which was portrayed in literary characterizations of women.

Explanation:

When women gained the right to vote, this represented a significant change from previous gender roles women were expected to conform to. The right to vote allowed women to have more of a say in the running of their country and in various social matters. This empowerment was similarly reflected in literature, where characterizations of women became more complex.

yes, it can be both.

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serve the people! ,” smoothly translated by julia lovell, offers an initial sample of yan lianke’s writing to an english-speaking audience. a bluntly drawn, mildly erotic fable, it teases mao zedong by poking fun at a true believer who obeys the chairman’s precepts too literally. to a western sensibility, the broad strokes of yan lianke’s humor would seem to pose little risk of inciting rebellion, whether of the flesh or of the body politic. but then, part of the book’s attraction is that it doesn’t have a western sensibility. it lets the reader see — or rather, intuit — what jokes chinese officials don’t consider funny, and how very little it takes for a writer to be branded an incendiary in 21st-century china, more than three decades after the death of mao, a decade after the death of deng xiaoping and seven years since china entered the world trade organization, a move that would seem to signal a willingness (however wary) to mingle with the rest of the world.