GWD3-Q35

michelle76by

Historians who study European women of the Renaissance try to measure “independence,” “options,” and other indicators of the degree to which the expression of women’s individuality was either permitted or suppressed. Influenced by Western individualism, these historians define a peculiar form of personhood:an innately bounded unit, autonomous and standing apart from both nature and society.An anthropologist, however, would contend that a person can be conceived in ways other than as an “individual.”In many societies a person’s identity is not intrinsically unique and self-contained but instead is defined within a complex web of social relationships.

In her study of the fifteenth-century Florentine widow Alessandra Strozzi, a historian who specializes in European women of the Renaissance attributes individual intention and authorship of actions to her subject.
This historian assumes that Alessandra had goals and interests different from those of her sons, yet much of the historian’s own research reveals that Alessandra acted primarily as a champion of her sons’ interests, taking their goals as her own.Thus Alessandra conforms more closely to the anthropologist’s notion that personal motivation is embedded in a social context.Indeed, one could argue that Alessandra did not distinguish her personhood from that of her sons.In Renaissance Europe the boundaries of the conceptual self were not always firm and closed and did not necessarily coincide with the boundaries of the bodily self.


GWD3-Q35:

The passage suggests that the historian mentioned in the second paragraph would be most likely to agree with which of the following assertions regarding Alessandra Strozzi?

A.Alessandra was able to act more independently than most women of her time because she was a widow.

B.Alessandra was aware that her personal motivation was embedded in a social context.

C.Alessandra had goals and interests similar to those of many other widows in her society.

D.Alessandra is an example of a Renaissance woman who expressed her individuality through independent action.

E.Alessandra was exceptional because she was able to effect changes in the social constraints placed upon women in her society.
我选的B啊，GWD给的解释是She is not aware of that，但是明明有吧

解释是根据黄色内容解答，选D，但是黄色部分木有说是hostorian啊。我根据红色部分的和蓝色部分选的。。很不明白。。。

sorcerer

题目是说文章里面第二段提到的历史学家可能会同意下面对那个寡妇的哪一个assertion，是指的的那个历史学家，所以根据黄色的部分选

zjhzkingsam

题目是说文章里面第二段提到的历史学家可能会同意下面对那个寡妇的哪一个assertion，是指的的那个历史学家， ...
sorcerer 发表于 2011-9-19 06:25

我还是觉得有疑问
This historian assumes that Alessandra had goals and interests different from those of her sons, yet much of the historian’s own research reveals that Alessandra acted primarily as a champion of hersons’ interests, taking their goals as her own.Thus Alessandra conforms more closely to the anthropologist’s notion that personal motivation is embedded in a social context.
可见，历史学家的推论和结果是不一样的。开始时历史学家可能会同意D观点，但是经过这个例子的研究后，他应该会同意C观点吧?
那题目问的究竟是研究前还是研究后呢？