求救PREP07阅读里面的第12篇～

Kateez · 发表于 2012-10-18 15:35:51

The professionalization of the study of history in the second half of the nineteenth century, including history's transformation from a literary genre to a scientific discipline, had important consequences not only for historians' perceptions of women but also for women as historians. The disappearance of women as objects of historical studies during this period has elements of irony to it. On the one hand, in writing about women, earlier historians had relied not on firsthand sources but rather on secondary sources; the shift to more rigorous research methods required that secondary sources be disregarded. On the other hand, the development of archival research and the critical editing of collections of documents began to reveal significant new historical evidence concerning women, yet this evidence was perceived as substantially irrelevant: historians saw political history as the general framework for historical writing. Because women were seen as belonging to the private rather than to the public sphere, the discovery of documents about them, or by them, did not, by itself, produce history acknowledging the contributions of women. In addition, genres such as biography and memoir, those forms of "particular history" that women had traditionally authored, fell into disrepute. The dividing line between "particular history" and general history was redefined in stronger terms, widening the gulf between amateur and professional practices of historical research.
求问这篇文章的逻辑结构？
1.原文开始句说历史研究的专业化对历史学家对女性的看法和那些作为历史学家的女性产生了重要影响。但是女性作为一个历史研究的对象消失的现象存在矛盾的（it）？这个it只指代前面的开始句内容吗？
2.不是很懂because那里开始的内容与前文是如何连得上的？

41.Which of the following best describes one of the "elements of irony" referred to in the highlighted text?
(A) Although the more scientific-minded historians of the second half of the nineteenth century considered women appropriate subjects for historical writing, earlier historians did not.
(B) Although archival research uncovered documentary evidence of women's role in history, historians continued to rely on secondary sources for information about women.
(C) Although historians were primarily concerned with writing about the public sphere, they generally relegated women to the private sphere.
(D) The scientific approach to history revealed more information about women, but that information was ignored.
(E) The professionalization of history, while marginalizing much of women's writing about history, enhanced the importance of women as historical subjects.
这题排除法剩下了D，但是还是不是很懂D如何与原文的细节和逻辑内容扣上？

谢谢～～

Kateez · 发表于 2012-10-19 20:25:23

顶顶，求解答～～

求救PREP07阅读里面的第12篇～

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