T-4-11:GWD-13-19

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    In 1675,Louis XIV established the Parisian seamstresses’ guild, the first independentall-female guild created in over 200 years. Guild members could make and sellwomen’s and children’s clothing, but were prohibited from producing men’sclothing or dresses for court women. Tailors resented the ascension of seamstressesto guild status; seamstresses, meanwhile, were impatient with the remainingrestrictions on their right to clothe women.

   The conflict between the guilds was notpurely economic, however.  A 1675 policereport indicated that since so many seamstresses were already workingillegally, the tailors were unlikely to suffer additional economic damagebecause of the seamstresses’ incorporation. Moreover, guild membership heldvery different meanings for tailors and seamstresses. To the tailors, theirstatus as guild members overlapped with their role as heads of household, andentitled them to employ as seamstresses female family members who did not marryoutside the trade. The seamstresses, however, viewed guild membership as a mark of independenc thepatriarchal family.  Their guildwas composed not of family units but of individual women who enjoyed unusual legaland economic privileges. At the conflict’s center was the issue of whethertailors’ female relatives should be identified as family members protected bythe tailors’ guild or as individuals under the jurisdiction of the seamstresses’guild.

T-4-11:GWD-13-19:

The author mentions the seamstresses’ view of guildmembership as a “mark of independence from the patriarchal family” (lines40-41) primarily in order to

A.   emphasize that the establishment of theseamstresses’ guild had implications that were not solely economic

B.   illustrate the conflict that existed betweentailors and their female family members over membership in the tailors’ guild

C.   imply that the establishment of theseamstresses’ guild ushered in a period of increased economic and socialfreedom for women in France

D.   provide an explanation for the dramaticincrease in the number of women working as seamstresses after 1675

E.    indicate that members of the seamstresses’guild were financially more successful than were tailors’ female relativesprotected by the tailors’ guild

想請教答案為何 tn24給的答案是A 但我怎覺得是B

先謝謝回答喔~ : )

goldenrice

B的解释是说发生在裁缝和他的女方家庭成员关于在裁缝协会成员资格方面的矛盾，
可不可用“无关”法排除。因为划线的句子一直是强调女裁缝师seamstresses，所以应该是talor同seamstresses之间的矛盾而不是talor内部家庭之间的矛盾，不知道这样解释对不对。

刚开始我以为是逻辑，后来才发现是阅读，有点汗

fly12404

thank U : )