How should arrests of prominent women be understood in the context of the women's movement?

Correct answer: They signalled state control over an independent women's political voice.

The governing concept is that repression can reveal the limits placed on a social movement by the revolutionary state. Prominent women who organised, wrote, petitioned, or criticised official policies could be arrested when authorities regarded independent mobilisation as a threat. Such arrests therefore signalled state control over women's political voice, making option A correct. They did not grant voting rights, so B confuses repression with political inclusion. Option C concerns education and has no necessary connection with arrests. Option D is also incorrect because the end of monarchy was a broader political development, not the meaning of arresting women activists. The evidence shows both activism and its limits.