GWD7-Q10

rainbowmanutd · 发表于 2010-5-2 10:36:50

Introduction of the republican motherhood thesis dramatically changed historiography.

rior to Kerber’s work, educational historians barely mentioned women and girls; Thomas Woody’s 1929 work is the notable exception. Examining newspaper advertisements for academies, Woody found that educational opportunities increased for both girls and boys around 1750.

ointing to “An Essay on Woman” (1753) as reflecting a shift in view, Woody also claimed that practical education for females had many advocates before the Revolution. Woody’s evidence challenges the notion that the Revolution changed attitudes regarding female education, although it may have accelerated earlier trends. Historians’ reliance on Kerber’s “republican motherhood” thesis may have obscured the presence of these trends, making it difficult to determine to what extent the Revolution really changed women’s lives.

According to the passage, within the field of educational history, Thomas Woody’s 1929 work was
A.   innovative because it relied on newspaper advertisements as evidence
B.   exceptional in that it concentrated on the period before the American Revolution
C.   unusual in that it focused on educational attitudes rather than on educational practices
D.   controversial in its claims regarding educational opportunities for boys
E.   atypical in that it examined the education of girls

请问为什么选B？CE哪里错了呢。。

GWD7-Q10

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