OG12阅读-7.4.15

gedn01

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 in 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.

80. The passage suggests that Lebsock believes that compared to nineteenth-century American women, eighteenth-century American women were
(A) in many respects less powerful in relation to men
(B) more likely to own real estate
(C) generally more economically independent
(D) more independent in conducting their private lives
(E) less likely to work as school superintendents
答案是C，我选D
定位到原文划线部分：妇女在私人生活领域里获得自治，意思味着她在经济领域里失去很多东西。
第二个划线部分：但是，转折一下。妇女拥有不动产的比例更高的情况下，比18世纪的妇女相比获得了更大的权利(我认为可以理解成autonomy )
虽然D不对，但也不同意C是正确的

hughlv

这个问题问的是Lebsock believes的是什么。我认为划线的两句话的地位是不一样的。第一句话以she concludes开头，很显然这才是Lebsock的真正观点。第二个划线句子单独看确实有19th-century的妇女也gain了autonomy的意思，但这只是Lebsock推导出他的结论过程中提到的一个例外，并没有影响他提出的最终观点。所以，我认为C是正确的。

gedn01

不正确吧
Lebsock believes
第一个划线：妇女在私人生活领域里获得自治，意思味着她在经济领域里失去很多东西。->经济上不独立

hughlv

这个就是lz你的不是了，没看清楚题目问的是什么。conclusion是19th的women比18th的经济更不独立，问题是倒过来问18th的跟19th相比如何。个么就是经济更独立了，哈哈。