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 on 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 refine 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.
According to the passage, Lebsock’s work differs from Buel and Buel’s work in that Lebsock’s work
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关键词L，定位到说到L的内容的地方：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 ...n also gained power in comparison with their previous status, owning a higher proportion of real estate, for example.
选项A primary sources是B这个人的内容
选项B legal status 回文层次未提及
选项C refuses to take a position与层次意思不符，L已通过和18ce女人相比，对19ce女人的情况表明立场
选项D 与redirect two decades of historiographical debate... 19ce 18ce 相符
选项E fails to provide sufficient material 与redirect two decades of historiographical debate不符
是因为she examines several different aspects of women's status, helping to refine and resolve the issues这个一句所以选了D吧
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2021-11-13 11:40:45
D我是如何也理解不了的，同样的话题，只因为L "redirect two decades of historiographical debate", 难道就等同于 “Larger historiographical issue" 吗？？？ 我认为无论如何L和B都是在讨论同一个issue,只是L直接一点，B不直接一点。怎么会L的就是larger issue, B的就是smaller issue? 我认为此题垃圾，没有学习的必要
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2021-06-11 08:28:21
leon小恶魔回复480005luq
makes little effort not only, but also.
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