OG13 Q69-74 有一句話不明白

cht1128

原文段落：

Two works published in 1984 demonstrate contrasting approaches to writing the history of United States women. Buel and Buel’s biography of Mary Fish (1736-1818) makes little effort to place her story in the context of recent historiography on women. Lebsock, meanwhile, attempts not only to write the history of women in one southern community, but also to redirect two decades of historiographical debate as to whether women gained or lost status on the nineteenth century as compared with the eighteenth century. Although both books offer the reader the opportunity to assess this controversy regarding women’s status, only Lebsock’s deals with it directly. She examines several different aspects of women’s status, helping to refine and resolve the issues. She concludes that while women gained autonomy in some areas, especially in the private sphere, they lost it in many aspects of the economic sphere. More importantly, she shows that the debate itself depends on frame of reference: in many respects, women lost power in relation to men, for example, as certain jobs (delivering babies, supervising schools) were taken over by men. Yet women also gained power in comparison with their previous status, owning a higher proportion of real estate, for example. In contrast, Buel and Buel’s biography provides ample raw material for questioning the myth, fostered by some historians, of a colonial golden age in the eighteenth century but does not give the reader much guidance in analyzing the controversy over women’s status.

想請問大家，這句話：
Lebsock, meanwhile, attempts not only to write the history of women in one southern community, but also to redirect two decades of historiographical debate as to whether women gained or lost status on the nineteenth century as compared with the eighteenth century.

(1) two decades of historiographical debate as to whether women gained or lost status on the nineteenth century
這句of前後原意上是不是要顛倒過來看？是作者考慮到避免頭重腳輕，才把他反著寫？

(2) as compared with the eighteenth century.
這裡若要還原的話，要怎麼還原呢？想不懂要比較的對象是甚麼，不管是decades還是debates感覺都不大對。雖然意思大該猜得出來。

謝謝大家！

grover201

楼主看的好细啊
说点我自己的看法：

（1）我对这句话的理解是这样的。but also to redirect two decades of historiographical debate as to whether women gained or lost status on the nineteenth century as compared with the eighteenth century

似乎没有楼主理解的那么复杂吧？楼主是理解为对于这“二十多年”的讨论？

我的理解是：而且将（持续）20多年编史类讨论的重点重新转入了关于whether women gained or lost status on the nineteenth century as compared with the eighteenth century

（2）
whether women gained or lost status on the nineteenth century as compared with(the women status on) the eighteenth century

cht1128

grover201 发表于 2014-5-20 23:07
楼主看的好细啊
说点我自己的看法：

感謝您

還是有一事不明白

redirect two decades of historiographical debate as to whether women gained or lost status on the nineteenth century as compared with the eighteenth century

這裡我一直以為
as to whether women gained or lost status on the nineteenth century as compared with the eighteenth century
是用來修飾
two decades of historiographical debate

因為我查字典 as to 意思是
as for / to, with respect to; in reference to: As for staying away, I wouldn't think of it.

不知道有沒有關於redirect的用法？

yzhao2xiaotong

果然是精读啊~~

cht1128

yzhao2xiaotong 发表于 2014-5-22 21:19
果然是精读啊~~

是不是有點鑽牛角尖了

grover201

cht1128 发表于 2014-5-23 00:15
是不是有點鑽牛角尖了

应该是稍微有点钻牛角尖了。。因为联系上下文的话，也可以推出应该是持续20多年的意思。因为全文没有讨论关于这“20年编年体”的问题。