gwd 13-16~19

Q16 to Q19:

      In 1675, Louis XIV

       established the Parisian

       seamstresses’ guild, the first

Line       independent all-female guild

  (5)      created in over 200 years.

Guild members could make

and sell women’s and chil-

dren’s clothing, but were

prohibited from producing

(10)      men’s clothing or dresses

for court women.  Tailors

resented the ascension of

seamstresses to guild status;

seamstresses, meanwhile,

(15)      were impatient with the

remaining restrictions on

their right to clothe women.

      The conflict between

the guilds was not purely

(20)      economic, however.  A 1675

       police report indicated that

       since so many seamstresses

were already working illegally,

the tailors were unlikely to

(25)      suffer additional economic

damage because of the

seamstresses’ incorporation.

Moreover, guild membership

held very different meanings

(30)      for tailors and seamstresses.

To the tailors, their status as

guild members overlapped

       with their role as heads of

household, and entitled them

(35)    to employ as seamstresses

female family members who

did not marry outside the trade.

The seamstresses, however,

      viewed guild membership as

(40)     a mark of independence from

the patriarchal family.  Their

guild was composed not of

family units but of individual

women who enjoyed unusual

(45)      legal and economic privileges.

       At the conflict’s center was

the issue of whether tailors’

female relatives should be

identified as family members

(50)      protected by the tailors’ guild

or as individuals under the

jurisdiction of the seam-

stresses’ guild.

请问红色的句子是什么意思？读不懂呀

To the tailors, their status as

guild members overlapped

       with their role as heads of

household, and entitled them

(35)    to employ as seamstresses

female family members who

did not marry outside the trade.

对男缝纫师来说, 他们作为行业成员的地位与其家长的角色重叠,

使得他们可以雇佣其没有与外行业的人结婚的女性家庭成员做缝纫工.

求助第19題:

Q19:

The author mentions the seamstresses’ view of guild membership as a “mark of independence from the patriarchal family” (lines 40-41) primarily in order to

1. emphasize that the establishment of the seamstresses’ guild had implications that were not solely economic
2. illustrate the conflict that existed between tailors and their female family members over membership in the tailors’ guild

3. imply that the establishment of the seamstresses’ guild ushered in a period of increased economic and social freedom for women in France
4. provide an explanation for the dramatic increase in the number of women working as seamstresses after 1675

5. indicate that members of the seamstresses’ guild were financially more successful than were tailors’ female relatives protected by the tailors’ guild

請指點...

"the conflict" in B is between people in two guilds not "in the tailor's guild", and the line 18 indicates it.

litheliluo, you are right...

Thanks~!

１９题的答案到底是Ａ还是Ｂ啊，怎么没有人有这个问题？

Q16:

The primary purpose of the passage is to

1. outline a scholarly debate over the impact of the Parisian seamstresses’ guild


2. summarize sources of conflict between the newly created Parisian seamstresses’ guild and the tailors’ guild


3. describe opposing views concerning the origins of the Parisian seamstresses’ guild


4. explore the underlying reasons for establishing an exclusively female guild in seventeenth-century Paris


5. correct a misconception about changes in seamstresses’ economic status that took place in Paris in the late seventeenth century

amacd mm:

I think it refers to line 18 to line 20 The conflict between the guilds was not purely economic, however.

just for ur reference