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Social circumstances in Early Modern England mostly served to repress women’s voices. Patriarchal culture and institutions const
Social circumstances in Early Modern England mostly served to repress women’s voices. Patriarchal culture and institutions const
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Social circumstances in Early Modern England mostly served to repress women’s voices. Patriarchal culture and institutions constructed them as chaste, silent, obedient, and subordinate. At the beginning of the 17th century, the ideology of patriarchy, political absolutism, and gender hierarchy were reaffirmed powerfully by King James in The Trew Law of Free Monarchie and Basilikon Doron: by that ideology the absolute power of God the supreme patriarch was seen to be imaged in the absolute monarch of the state and in the husband and father of a family. Accordingly, a woman’s subjection, first to her father and then to her husband, imaged the subjection of English people to their monarch, and of all Christians to God. Also, the period saw an outpouring of repressive or overtly misogynist sermons, tracts, and plays, detailing women’s physical and mental defects, spiritual evils, rebelliousness, shrewishness, and natural inferiority to men.
Yet some social and cultural conditions served to empower women. During the Elizabethan era(1558—1603) the culture was dominated by a powerful Queen, who provided an impressive female example though she left scant cultural space for other women. Elizabethan women writers began to produce original texts but were occupied chiefly with translation. In the 17th century, however, various circumstances enabled women to write original texts in some numbers. For one thing, some counterweight to patriarchy was provided by female communities—mothers and daughters, extended kinship networks, close female friends, the separate court of Queen Anne(King James’ consort) and her often oppositional masques and political activities. For another, most of these women had a reasonably good education(modern languages, history, literature, religion, music, occasionally Latin) and some apparently found in romances and histories more expansive terms for imagining women’s lives. Also, representation of vigorous and rebellious female characters in literature and especially on the stage no doubt helped to undermine any monolithic social construct of women’s nature and role.
Most important, perhaps, was the radical potential inherent in the Protestant insistence on every Christian’s immediate relationship with God and primary responsibility to follow his or her individual conscience. There is plenty of support in St Paul’s epistles and elsewhere in the Bible for patriarchy and a wife’s subjection to her husband, but some texts(notably Galatians 3:28) inscribe a very different politics, promoting women’s spiritual equality:" There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Jesus Christ. " Such texts encouraged some women to claim the support of God the supreme patriarch against the various earthly patriarchs who claimed to stand toward them in his stead.
There is also the gap or slippage between ideology and common experience. English women throughout the 17th century exercised a good deal of accrual power: as managers of estates in their husbands’ absences at court or on military and diplomatic missions: as members of guilds: as wives and mothers who apex during the English Civil War and Interregnum(1640—1660), as the execution of the King and the attendant disruption of social hierarchies led many women to seize new roles—as preachers, as prophetesses, as deputies for exiled royalist husbands, as writers of religious and political tracts.
All of the following are characteristics of Early Modern England EXCEPT that______.
选项
A、women’s merits were extolled in publications
B、women’s opinions were not asked
C、women were subject to their husbands
D、women were often deemed to have physical and mental defects
答案
A
解析
细节题。第一段首句指出,现代英国早期的社会环境通常压制女性的声音,故排除[B];倒数第二句指出,女性首先要服从父亲,然后要服从丈夫,体现了英国臣民服从君主,基督徒服从上帝,故排除[C];最后一句指出,这一时期出现许多压制或公开反对女性的布道、小册子和戏剧,详细地描述了女性在精神上和肉体上的缺陷、精神罪恶、叛逆、刻薄以及天生不如男性的品性,故排除[D]。只有[A]不是现代英国早期的特征,故为答案。
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