求助OG12 第十五篇阅读~

stella12cd

P388的 Line6-11
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.

这句话的红色部分应该怎么理解啊？redirect的用法是怎样的啊？
求教各位NN~~谢谢~~