PREP2-Q17-essay#5

connie4895

Essay #5.  189  (21953-!-item-!-188;#058&00189-00)

 

Traditional social science models of class groups in the United States are based on economic status and assume that women's economic status derives from association with men, typically fathers or husbands, and that women therefore have more compelling common interest with men of their own economic class than with women outside it.  Some feminist social scientists, by contrast, have argued that the basic division in American society is instead based on gender, and that the total female population, regardless of economic status, constitutes a distinct class.  Social historian Mary Ryan, for example, has argued that in early-nineteenth-century America the identical legal status of working-class and middle-class free women outweighed the differences between women of these two classes:  married women, regardless of their family's wealth, did essentially the same unpaid domestic work, and none could own property or vote.  Recently, though, other feminist analysts have questioned this model, examining ways in which the condition of working-class women differs from that of middle-class women as well as from that of working-class men.  Ann Oakley notes, for example, that the gap between women of different economic classes widened in the late nineteenth century:  most working-class women, who performed wage labor outside the home, were excluded from the emerging middle-class ideal of femininity centered around domesticity and volunteerism.

 

Question #17.  189-03       (22045-!-item-!-188;#058&000189-03)

 

It can be inferred from the passage that the most recent feminist social science research on women and class seeks to do which of the following?

 

(A) Introduce a divergent new theory about the relationship between legal status and gender

(B) Illustrate an implicit middle-class bias in earlier feminist models of class and gender

(C) Provide evidence for the position that gender matters more than wealth in determining class status

(D) Remedy perceived inadequacies of both traditional social science models and earlier feminist analyses of class and gender

(E) Challenge the economic definitions of class used by traditional social scientists

 

答案是(D), 不太理解思路，请求高人指点，谢谢!!

connie4895

没人回覆....顶一下

cathyzq

Recently, though, other feminist analysts have questioned this model, examining ways in which the condition of working-class women differs from that of middle-class women as well as from that of working-class men.  Ann Oakley notes, for example, that the gap between women of different economic classes widened in the late nineteenth century:  most working-class women, who performed wage labor outside the home, were excluded from the emerging middle-class ideal of femininity centered around domesticity and volunteerism.

定位的点是RECENTLY，other feminist的观点

不是一开始的ON CONTRAST那块，这里不是question the model

一开始早期女权主义的观点是跟阶级无关，只跟性别有关，它下面举了个RECENTLY的女权主义的例子。

were excluded from the emerging middle-class ideal of femininity centered around domesticity and volunteerism.

故此可以得到答案

ashleyyuan

thank you,I got it.