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 refi ne 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.
77. The author of the passage mentions the supervision of
schools primarily in order to
(A) remind readers of the role education played in
the cultural changes of the nineteenth century in
the United States
(B) suggest an area in which nineteenth-century
American women were relatively free to exercise
power
(C) provide an example of an occupation for which
accurate data about women’s participation are
diffi cult to obtain
(D) speculate about which occupations were
considered suitable for United States women of
the nineteenth century
(E) illustrate how the answers to questions about
women’s status depend on particular contexts
（1）请教下此文章中蓝色体的这句话中fostered的逻辑主语是什么；
（2）还有就是答案是E，可是E中的answers to questions我不太理解，但是E的OG上的解释是Th e passage mentions supervising schools as part of an illustration of Lebsock’s claim that the debate about women’s status depends on the context being examined. 并没有answer to questions的意思啊，请牛人给我解释下。 作者: victoria820 时间: 2010-7-28 06:40
整篇文章都是围绕这个问题whether women gained or lost status in the nineteenth century as compared with the eighteenth century开展分析的。作者: mingzhu99 时间: 2010-7-29 20:28
E选项的意思是 how the answers...depend on particular contexts. to questions about women's status 是跟answers的，也就是应该是anwers to question，中文意思是：。。。问题的答案
但是这个题我也有疑问，就是B选项究竟是个什么意思不明白
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