Read the excerpt from a history of women’s suffrage by stanton, anthony, and gage. another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his chivalry, and his desire to protect woman in the barbarous periods of pillage, lust, and war. but wherever the roots may be traced, the results at this hour are equally disastrous to woman. her best interests and happiness do not seem to have been consulted in the arrangements made for her protection. she has been bought and sold, caressed and crucified at the will and pleasure of her master. but if a chivalrous desire to protect woman has always been the mainspring of man's dominion over her, it should have prompted him to place in her hands the same weapons of defense he has found to be most effective against wrong and oppression. which statement paraphrases the authors’ argument? throughout history, men have strived to protect women through chivalrous action and guardianship. women have always been subservient to men because they have needed protection during war and pillage. men have not been successful protecting women because they have not given women the power to protect themselves. during times of war, men and women rely on one another for defense, and they each have weapons for battle.

Men have not been successful protecting women because they have not given women the power to protect themselves.

The excerpt explains that some authors believe that the power men have over women comes from noble feelings. In the past, when war and pillage was common, men wanted to protect women. And this chivalry led them to exert control over them. However, the authors claim that if that was the case, then men should have given women the tools to protect themselves, instead of striving to keep them vulnerable so that men could save them.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.