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  3. Simone de Beauvoir’s work greatly influenced Betty Friedan’s--indeed, made it possible. Why, then, was it Friedan who became the

Simone de Beauvoir’s work greatly influenced Betty Friedan’s--indeed, made it possible. Why, then, was it Friedan who became the

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问题     Simone de Beauvoir’s work greatly influenced Betty Friedan’s--indeed, made it possible. Why, then, was it Friedan who became the prophet of women’s emancipation in the United States? Political conditions, as well as a certain anti-intellectual bias, prepared Americans and the American media to better receive Friedan’s deradicalized and highly pragmatic The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, than Beauvoir’s theoretical reading of women’s situation in The Second Sex. In I953 when The Second Sex first appeared in translation in the United States, the country had entered the silent, fearful fortress of the anticommunist McCarthy years (1950--1954), and Beauvoir was suspected of Marxist sympathies.  Even The Nation, a generally liberal magazine, warned its readers against "certain political leanings" of the author. Open acknowledgement of the existence of women’s oppression was too radical for the United States in the fifties, and Beauvoir’s conclusion, that change in women’s economic condition, though insufficient by itself,  "remains time basic factor" in improving women’s situation, was particularly unacceptable.
According to the passage, Beauvoir’s book asserted that the status of women ______.
选项 A、is the outcome of political oppression
B、is inherently tied to their economic condition
C、can be best improved under a communist government
D、is a theoretical, rather than a pragmatic, issue
答案B
解析 根据短文，贝弗的书官称，妇女的地位从本质上讲与她们的经济状况有关。作者在最后一句说，贝弗下了这样的结论：妇女经济状况的变化依然是改苦妇女地位的基本因素。
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