GWD 20-12 怎么也想不明白,只能求教牛人了

Linda Kerber argued in the mid-

       1980’s that after the American Revolution

       (1775-1783), an ideology of “republican

Line       motherhood” resulted in a surge of edu-

  (5)      cational opportunities for women in the

United States.  Kerber maintained that

the leaders of the new nation wanted

women to be educated in order to raise

politically virtuous sons.  A virtuous citi-

 (10)      zenry was considered essential to the

success of the country’s republican form

of government; virtue was to be instilled

not only by churches and schools, but

by families, where the mother’s role

 (15)      was crucial.  Thus, according to Kerber,

motherhood became pivotal to the fate

of the republic, providing justification for

an unprecedented attention to female

education.

 (20)            Introduction of the republican moth-

       erhood thesis dramatically changed

       historiography.  Prior to Kerber’s work,

educational historians barely mentioned

women and girls; Thomas Woody’s 1929

 (25)      work is the notable exception.  Examining

newspaper advertisements for acade-

mies, Woody found that educational

opportunities increased for both girls

and boys around 1750.  Pointing to “An

 (30)      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

 (35)
                       that the Revolution changed attitudes

regarding female education, although it

may have accelerated earlier trends.

Historians’ reliance on Kerber’s “repub-

      lican motherhood” thesis may have

 (40)     obscured the presence of these trends,

making it difficult to determine to what

extent the Revolution really changed

women’s lives.

两个人分别是Revolution前后的观点，

都围绕对妇女教育问题态度重视程度的改变上，

侧重方向不同。

是选D，

Bprior to the American Revolution，错

把這題再翻出來一次跟大家討論 我個人還是傾向B 理由如下:

1)D是說whether women's educational opportunities changed during the 18th century 也就是說兩人對女性們的教育機會在18世紀是否有改變有爭議 可是事實上是有改變 只是一個說在revolution之前 一個說之後

2)B的話是說兩人對the extent of the support for educational opportunities for girls prior to the revolution有爭議 從文章裡可以找個到兩人的看法

Linda Kerber argued in the mid-

            1980’s that after the American Revolution

            (1775-1783), an ideology of “republican

Line     motherhood” resulted in a surge of edu-

  (5)      cational opportunities for women in the

United States.