首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
In large part as a consequence of the feminist movement, historians have focused a great deal of attention in recent years on de
In large part as a consequence of the feminist movement, historians have focused a great deal of attention in recent years on de
admin
2013-01-19
56
问题
In large part as a consequence of the feminist movement, historians have focused a great deal of attention in recent years on determining more accurately the status of women in various periods. Al though much has been accomplished for the modern period, pre-modern cultures have proved more difficult: sources are restricted in number, fragmentary, difficult to interpret, and often contradictory. Thus it is not particularly surprising that some earlier scholarship concerning such cultures has so far gone unchallenged. An example is Johann Bechofen’ s 1861 treatise on Amazons, women-ruled societies of questionable existence contemporary with ancient Greece.
Starting from the premise that mythology and legend preserve at least a nucleus of historical fact, Bachofen argued that women were dominant in many ancient societies. His work was based on a comprehensive survey of references in the ancient sources to Amazonian and other societies with matrilineal customs--societies in which descent and property rights are traced through the female line. Some support for his theory can be found in evidence such as that drawn from Herodotus, the Greek "historian" of the fifth century BC, who speaks of an Amazonian society, the Sauromatae, where the women hunted and fought in wars. A woman in this society was not allowed to marry until she had killed a person in battle.
Nonetheless, this assumption that the first recorders of ancient myths have preserved facts is problematic. If one begins by examining why ancients refer to Amazons, it becomes clear that ancient Greek descriptions of such societies were meant not so much to represent observed historical fact--real Amazonian societies--but rather to offer "moral lessons" on the supposed outcome of women’ s role in their own society. The Amazons were often characterized, for example, as the equivalents of giants and monsters, enemies to be killed by Greek heroes. Their customs were presented not as those of respectable society, but as the very anti-theses of ordinary Greek practices.
Thus, I would argue, the purpose of accounts of the Amazons for their male Greek recorders, was enlightening to teach both male and female Greeks that all-female groups, formed by withdrawal from traditional society, are destructive and dangerous. Myths about the Amazons were used as arguments for the male-dominated status quo, in which groups composed exclusively of the other sex were not permitted to segregate themselves permanently from society. Bachofen was thus misled in this reliance on myths for information about the status of woman. The sources that will probably tell con temporary historians most about women in the ancient world are such social documents as grave stones, wills, and marriage contracts. Studies of such documents have already begun to show how mistaken we are when we try to deliver our picture of the ancient world exclusively from literary sources, especially myths.
The author’s attitude toward Bachofen’ s treatise is best described as one of ______.
选项
A、qualified approval
B、profound ambiguity
C、studied neutrality
D、pointed disagreement
答案
D
解析
Bachofen’s treatise是建立在Greek“historian”的记载资料基础上的,而作者又在最后一段指出希腊人对Amazon女性的描述是有偏见的,以自己的民族利益为出发点的,可以看出作者是不同意Bachofen’s treatise。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/ID2O777K
0
考博英语
相关试题推荐
Auctionsarepublicsalesofgoods,conductedbyanofficiallyapprovedauctioneer.Heaskedthecrowdtogatherintheauction
TheNationalTrustinBritain,togetherwithsimilarvoluntaryorganization,playsanincreasinglyimportantpartinthepreserv
Itisfrequentlyassumedthatthemechanizationofworkhasarevolutionaryeffectonthelivesofthepeoplewhooperatethene
AnAmericanliterarycritic,humorousjournalist,essayist,whosecomicskepticismabouthumanprogress,expressedwithpenetrat
Withsomedifficulty,PalladisdetachedBalintorefromanapparentlyenthrallingdiscussionandguidedhimthroughaturbulentt
Thestudyofsocialscienceismorethanthestudyoftheindividualsocialsciences.Althoughitistreethattobeagoodsoci
InarecentbookentitledThePsychicLifeofInsects,ProfessorBouviersaysthatwemustbecarefulnottocreditthelittlew
______ofthetwinswasarrested,becauseIsawbothatapartylastnight.
Thirty-onemillionAmericansareover60yearsofage,andtwenty-ninemillionofthemarehealthy,busy,productivecitizens.B
BackinSeattle,aroundthecornerfromtheDiscoveryInstitute,StephenMeyerofferssomepeer-reviewedevidencethattheretruly
随机试题
(2010年10月)里格斯认为,在现代工业社会中,成为各种利益和要求的汇聚点和表达者的是_________。
下列不可以使合同发生无效的是()。
石方开挖使用的爆破方法中大多采用集中药包的是()。
在索洛模型中,技术进步是内生变量。()
下列不属于执行理财规划方案原则的是()。
重庆火锅的原料主要有下列的()。
截至2012年年底,我国全年新增网民5090万人(其中农村新增1960万人),互联网普及率为42.1%,较2011年年底提升3.8个百分点,网民中使用手机上网的用户占比由上年年底的69.3%提升至74.5%。微博用户同比增加5873万人,网民中微博用户的比
现代社会的种种特征对教育系统具有决定作用。()
设(X1,X2,…,X3)(n≥2)为标准正态总体,X的简单随机样本,则().
年画(NewYearPicture)是中国特有的一种绘画体裁。贴年画的习俗源于在房子的大门上贴门神(DoorGods)的传统。传统年画以精美的木刻(blockprint)和鲜艳的色彩闻名。主题主要是花鸟、可爱的婴儿、神话传说与历史故事等,表达人们祈望
最新回复
(
0
)