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In an unfinished but highly suggestive series of essays, the late Sarah Eisentein has focused ttention on the evolution of working women’s values from the turn of the century to the First World War. Eisenstein argues that turn-of-the-century women neither wholly accepted nor rejected what she calls the dominant “ideology of domesticity,” but rather took this and other available ideologies-feminism, socialism, trade unionism-and modified or adapted them in light of their won experiences and needs. In thus maintaining that wages-work helped to produce a new “consciousness” among women, Eisenstein to some extent challenges the recent, controversial proposal by Leslie Tentler that for women the work experience only served to reinforce the attractiveness of the dominant ideology. According to the Tentler, the degrading conditions under which many female wage earners worked made them view the family as a source of power and esteem available nowhere else in their social world. In contrast, Eisenstein’s study insists that wage-work had other implications for women’s identities and consciousness. Most importantly, her work aims to demonstrate that wage-work enabled women to become aware of themselves as a distinct social group capable of defining their collective circumstance. Eisenstein insists that as a group working-class women were not able to come to collective consciousness of their situation until they began entering the labor force, because domestic work tended to isolate them from one another.

Unfortunately, Eisenstein’s unfinished study does not develop these ideas in sufficient depth or detail, offering tantalizing hints rather than an exhaustive analysis. Whatever Eisenstein’s overall plan may have been, in its current form her study suffers from the limited nature of the sources she depended on. She use the speeches and writings of reformers and labor organizers, who she acknowledges were far from representative, as the voice of the typical woman worker. And there is less than adequate attention given to the differing values of immigrant groups that made up a significant proportion of the population under investigation. While raising important questions, Eisenstein’s essays do not provide definitive answer, and it remains for others to take up the challenges they offer.

(A) An oral history of promotion women labor organizers

(B) An analysis of letters and diaries written by typical female wage earners at the turn of the century

(C) An assessment of what different social and political groups defined as the dominant ideology in the early twentieth century

(D) A theoretical study of how socialism and feminism influenced one another at the turn of the century

(E) A documentary account of labor’s role in the introduction of women into the labor force

252.
To answer this question you must decide which answer would best provide the sort of information
that the author feels is lacking in Eisenstein’s study. The author’s critique of Eisenstein’s argument
is found primarily in the second paragraph. Choice B is the best answer because the author points
out that Eisenstein’s study is flawed in that it relies on sources that are not representative of the
average female worker. An analysis of writings by typical female wage earners would help to
rectify this problem. Choice A is not correct. Eisenstein’s study already focuses on labor
organizers; it is unlikely that the author feels that even more attention to this group is necessary.
Choice C is not correct because the passage does not suggest that three were disagreements among
social and political groups as to the definition of the dominant ideology. Choices D and E are
incorrect because Eisenstein’s study is not concerned with the interaction between socialism and
feminism, nor with labor’s particular role in the introduction of women into the workforce.

我想问为什么作者一定是认为Eisenstein没有完成的部分能弥补她完成了的部分的缺陷呢？从文章对Eisenstein's study的态度来看，作者认为unfortunately她目前已有的研究是不完全的，证据是不具

请问我这样想有什么问题？

Which of the following would the author of the passage be most likely to approve as a continuation of Eisenstein’s study?

是推断

作者很可能同意

她未完成的部分

会通过B改正