GWD-TN- 16

    Subsequent research in Kenya convinced Robertson that she had
overgeneralized about Africa. Before colonialism,
gender was more salient in central Kenya
than it was in Ghana,
although age was still crucial in determining authority. In contrast with Ghana,
where women had traded for hundreds of years and achieved legal majority (not
unrelated phenomena), the evidence regarding central Kenya indicated that women
were legal minors and were sometimes treated as male property, as 18.were European
women at that time. Factors like strong patrilinearity and patrilocality, as
well as women’s inferior land rights and lesser involvement in trade, made women
more dependent on men than was generally the case in Ghana. However, since age
apparently remained the overriding principle of social organization in central 24.
Kenya, some senior women had much authority. Thus, Robertson revised her
hypothesis somewhat, arguing that in determining authority in precolonial Africa age was a primary principle that superseded gender
to varying degrees depending on the situation.

7. GWD29-Q4:

The passage indicates that Robertson’s research in Kenya
caused her to change her mind regarding which of the following? 

A.   
Whether age was the prevailing principle of
social organization in Kenya before colonialism

B.   
Whether gender was the primary determinant
of social authority in Africa generally before colonialism

C.   
Whether it was only after colonialism that
gender became a significant determinant of authority in Kenyan society

D.   
Whether age was a crucial factor determining
authority in Africa after colonialism

E.    
Whether British colonialism imposed
European-style male-dominant notions upon local situations in Ghana

8. GWD29-Q5:

The passage suggests
that after conducting the research mentioned in line 18, but not before,
Robertson would have agreed with which of the following about women’s status
and authority in Ghana?

A.   
Greater land rights and greater involvement
in trade made women in precolonial Ghana less dependent on men than
were European women at that time.

B.   
Colonialism had a greater impact on the
status and authority of Ghanaian women than on Kenyan women.

C.   
Colonialism had less of an impact on the
status and authority of Ghanaian women that it had on the status and authority
of other African women.

D.   
The relative independence of Ghanaian women
prior to colonialism was unique in Africa.

E.    
Before colonialism, the status and authority
of Ghanaian women was similar to that of Kenyan women.

答案是: C, B

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