OGp 389的第81题

brucechung2011

不懂第81题答案C的解释，很牵强，想不通
我想说答案D为什么不对
望各路牛牛帮忙我的疑惑，thx

suners

回复 7# yidiyuehans

迷思迷思。

yidiyuehans

myth的意思是神话，我理解就是那些historian说的是虚构的，神话嘛。。。

suners

回复 4# brucechung2011


    历史学家支持这个myth，但是myth的意思是不是真实的。反应了作者对历史学家支持的golden colonial age的态度。

suners

回复 4# brucechung2011


   

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.


"two decades of historiographical debate as to whether women gained or lost status in the nineteenth century as compared with the eighteenth century"
关于19世纪和18世纪的妇女地位变化的debate。也是后边的controversy，最后的myth也和这个有关。

81. The passage suggests that Buel and Buel’s biography of Mary Fish provides evidence for which of the following views of women’s history?

(A) Women have lost power in relation to men since the colonial era.

(B) Women of the colonial era were not as likely to be concerned with their status as were women in the nineteenth century.

(C) The colonial era was not as favorable for women as some historians have believed.      

(D) Women had more economic autonomy in the colonial era than in the nineteenth century.

(E) Women’s occupations were generally more respected in the colonial era than in the nineteenth century.

brucechung2011

女性地位高是一个myth的话，不是说明历史学家还不知道为什么，还没研究18世纪女性地位高的原因。这是我的理解。

yidiyuehans

这题就是通过原文27-30行推断，原文的意思是一些historian所说的18世纪的colonial golden age，女性地位比较高是一个myth, 换句话说就是那个时候女性地位并不像historians说的那么好。这题开始我也纠结半天，不知道这么说清除否。。。

suners

回复 1# brucechung2011

OG的哪个版本？？
或者楼主可以找个word版贴一下。