diagnostic test 中有些句子翻译不是很拿得准，求解！

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刚开始OG的学习，有些句子很模糊不是很明晰他的意思，求教！ OG12的diagnostic test中第三篇阅读（P31）问题

14. The author of the passage mentions the observations of women historians (lines 15–17) most probably in order to (D) offer an alternative view to the one attributed in the passage to working-class mothers

这个D选项的准确翻译是什么呢？从文章的观点中提供一种另外一种观点，为工薪阶级母亲？

还有文章中Though largely disenfranchised except for school elections, white middle-class women reformers won a variety of victories, notably in the improvement of working conditions, especially for women and children 第一句是说“虽然除了学校选举以外在其他大部分时候被剥夺了人权？”