[求助]prep2-essay5-Q17

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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

 

这道题理解不了啊，为什么选D啊？上面黄色加亮那句话理解不了啊。其他女权主义者质疑这个model,指的应该是早期女权主义者提出的只与性别有关，与阶级无关吧？可是后面“检验在哪些情形下，工人阶级妇女的状况与中产阶级妇女以及工人阶级男的状况的状况不一样，Ann Oakley举的例子”怎么就能说明D呢？

 

 

gracezz

Traditional social science models：按经济地位分
earlier models:按gender分
recent models:因为与middle class 不同，所以不是按gender,因为与men不同，所以也不是按经济地位。所以是与两个都不同。

midforest

传统社会科学阶级模型假设女人与和她们在同一经济地位的男人有着更多的不可抗拒利益。
一些女权主义社会科学家则认为，不同经济地位的女人有着相同的权利而组成一个阶级。
最近其他一些女权主义分析家对此模型（传统社会科学阶级模型）提出质疑，并研究了工人阶级女人与中产阶级女人之间，还有与工人阶级男人之间的不同境况。

所以，最近一些女权分析家既质疑了传统模型，又质疑了早些时候一些女权主义社会科学家的观点。

只有d选项含有对先前两种观点质疑的意思。