In a 1984 book, Claire C. Robertson argued that, before colonialism, age was Line a more important indicator (5) of status and authority than gender in Ghana and in Africa generally. British colonialism imposed European-style male- (10) dominant notions upon more egalitarian local situations to the detriment of women generally, and gender became a defining (15) characteristic that weak- ened women’s power and authority. Subsequent research in Kenya convinced Robertson (20) that she had overgeneralized about Africa. Before colo- nialism, gender was more salient in central Kenya than it was in Ghana, although age (25) was still crucial in determin- ing authority. In contrast with Ghana, where women had traded for hundreds of years and achieved legal majority (30) (not unrelated phenomena), the evidence regarding central Kenya indicated that women were legal minors and were sometimes treated (35) as male property, as were European women at that time. Factors like strong patrilinearity and patrilocality, as well as women’s inferior (40) land rights and lesser involvement in trade, made women more dependent on men than was generally the case in Ghana. However, (45) since age apparently remained the overriding principle of social organiza- tion in central Kenya, some senior women had much (50) authority. Thus, Robertson revised her hypothesis somewhat, arguing that in determining authority in precolonial Africa age was a (55) primary principle that super- seded gender to varying degrees depending on the situation. 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. Colonialism had a greater impact on the status and authority of Ghanaian women than on Kenyan women. 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. The relative independence of Ghanaian women prior to colonialism was unique in Africa. Before colonialism, the status and authority of Ghanaian women was similar to that of Kenyan women. 正解是B，我选的是A，请问A不对是怎么得出来的，谢谢大家
妇女是否参与商业而导致是否如同同时期欧洲妇女那样依赖男性，文章只是提到了KENYA的妇女在殖民前就因商业和土地原因很依赖男人，虽然年龄也重要，但性别差异已经存在，所以这一发现推翻了作者以前过分概括的认为是殖民主义使非洲由重年龄改为重性别的。从文章中，我们知道Ghana殖民前是一个以年龄为重的国家，而且women had traded for hundreds of years and achieved legal majority，这个事实在做KENYA的research前Robertson就已经agree了，故A为迷惑选项。
妇女是否参与商业而导致是否如同同时期欧洲妇女那样依赖男性，文章只是提到了KENYA的妇女在殖民前就因商业和土地原因很依赖男人，虽然年龄也重要，但性别差异已经存在，所以这一发现推翻了作者以前过分概括的认为是殖民主义使非洲由重年龄改为重性别的。从文章中，我们知道Ghana殖民前是一个以年龄为重的国家，而且women had traded for hundreds of years and achieved legal majority，这个事实在做KENYA的research前Robertson就已经agree了，故A为迷惑选项。
這篇我一直覺得很納悶 一開始R說before colonialism: age>gender (generally in Africa),之後的研究他發現overgeneralized,而他的發現是in Kenyan gerder>age。然而這發現的最後一句我覺得很怪 since age apparently remained the overriding principle of social organization in central Kenyasince,所以是說在Kenyan,age還是比較有影響力的嗎? 之後,他修改他的觀點:age was a primary principle...那這一句不就又回到之前他還未觀察Kenyan的情形時說的一樣嗎?還是age>gender啊??
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