请教GWD18-Q25?

nsbtg

When the
history of women began to receive focused attention in the 1970’, Eleanor
Roosevelt was one of a handful of female Americans who were well known to both
historians and the general public. Despite the evidence that she had been
important in social-reform circles before her husband was elected President and
that she continued to advocate different causes than he did, she held a place
in the public imagination largely because she was the wife of a particularly
influential President. Her own activities were seen as preparing the way for
her husband’s election or as a complement to his programs. Even Joseph Lash’s
two volumes of sympathetic biography, Eleanor and Franklin (1971) and Eleanor:
The Years Alone (1972), reflected this assumption.

    

Lash’s
biography revealed a complicated woman who sought through political activity
both to flee inner misery and to promote causes in which she passionately believed.
However, she still appeared to be an idiosyncratic figure, somehow
self-generated not amenable to any generalized explanation. She emerged from the
biography as a mother to the entire nation, or as a busybody, but hardly as a
social type, a figure comprehensible in terms of broader social developments.

    

But more
recent work on the feminism of the post-suffrage years (following 1920) allows
us to see Roosevelt in a different light and
to bring her life into a more richly detailed context. Lois Scharf’s Eleanor
Roosevelt, written in 1987, depicts a generation of privileged women, born
in the late nineteenth century and maturing in the twentieth, who made the
transition from old patterns of female association to new ones. Their views and
their lives were full of contradictions. They maintained female social networks
but began to integrate women into mainstream politics; they demanded equal treatment
but also argued that women’s maternal responsibilities made them both wards and
representatives of the public interest. Thanks to Scharf and others,
Roosevelt’s activities—for example, her support both for labor laws protecting
women and for appointments of women to high public office—have become
intelligible in terms of this social context rather than as the idiosyncratic
career of a famous man’s wife.

Q 25: Which of the following studies would proceed in
a
                    way most similar to the way in which, according to
the passage. Scharf’s book interprets Eleanor
                    Roosevelt’s career?

                

A.     
An exploration of the activities of a wealthy
                    social reformer in terms of the ideals held
                    by the reformer

                

B.     
A history of the leaders of a political party
                    which explained how the conflicting aims
                    of its individual leaders thwarted and
                    diverted the activities of each leader

                

C.     
An account of the legislative career of a conservative
senator which showed his goals to
                    have been
derived from a national conservative movement of which the senator was
                    a part

                

D.     
A biography of a famous athlete which
                    explained her high level of motivation in terms
                    of the kind of family in which she grew up

                

E.      
A history of the individuals who led the movement to end
slavery in the United States which
                    attributed
the movement’s success to the
                    efforts of
those exceptional individuals

nsbtg

答案是D，但是不怎么理解。

我选得是C，主要考虑到从她而引申到整个generation