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
The settlement of the United States has occupied traditional historians since 1893 when Frederick Jackson Turner developed his F
The settlement of the United States has occupied traditional historians since 1893 when Frederick Jackson Turner developed his F
admin
2014-09-18
50
问题
The settlement of the United States has occupied traditional historians since 1893 when Frederick Jackson Turner developed his Frontier Thesis, a thesis that explained American development in terms of westward expansion. From the perspective of women’ s history, Turner’ s exclusively masculine assumptions constitute a major drawback: his defenders and critics alike have reconstructed men’ s, not women’ s, lives on the frontier. However, precisely because of this masculine orientation, revising the Frontier Thesis by focusing on women’s experience introduces new themes into women’ s history—woman as lawmaker and entrepreneui—and, consequently, new interpretations of women’s relationship to capital, labor, and statute.
Turner claimed that the frontier produced the individualism that is the hallmark of American culture, and that this individualism in turn promoted democratic institutions and economic equality. He argued for the frontier as an agent of social change. Most novelists and historians writing in the early to mid-twentieth century who considered women in the West, when they considered women at all, fell under Turner’ s spell. In their works these authors tended to glorify women’ s contributions to frontier life. Western women, in Turnerian tradition, were a fiercely independent, capable, and durable lot, free from the constraints binding their eastern sisters. This interpretation implied that the West provided a congenial environment where women could aspire to their own goals, free from constrictive stereotypes and sexist attitudes. In Turnerian terminology, the frontier had furnished " a gate of escape from the bondage of the past. "
By the middle of the twentieth century, the Frontier Thesis fell into disfavor among historians. Later, Reactionist writers took the view that fron- tier women were lonely, displaced persons in a hostile milieu that intensified the worst aspects of gender relations. The renaissance of the feminist movement during the 1970’s led to the Sta- sist school, which sidestepped the good bad dichotomy and argued that frontier women lived lives similar to the live of women in the East. In one now-standard text, Faragher demonstrated the persistence of the "cult of true womanhood" and the illusionary quality of change on the westward journey. Recently the Stasist position has been revised but not entirely discounted by new research.
The primary purpose of the passage is to
选项
A、provide a framework within which the history of women in nineteenth-century America can be organized.
B、discuss divergent interpretations of women’ s experience on the western frontier.
C、introduce a new hypothesis about women’ s experience in nineteenth-century America.
D、advocate an empirical approach to women’ s experience on the western frontier.
E、resolve ambiguities in several theories about women’ s experience on the western frontier.
答案
B
解析
主题类型:A.提供妇女历史框架。不是本文作者目的。B.正确。讨论对西部边疆妇女经历的多种解释。文中有Turner及其追随者的思想,反对者思想,平衡学派观点。C.“19世纪妇女经历”不准确,文中只对西部妇女感兴趣。D.“推动一丰张”。无。本文是评论几种理论。E.解决几个理论中的模棱两可。无。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/YctO777K
本试题收录于:
GMAT VERBAL题库GMAT分类
0
GMAT VERBAL
GMAT
相关试题推荐
Itseemslikeeverydaythere’ssomenewresearchaboutwhetherourfavoritedrinksaregoodforus.Oneday,sciencesaysagla
______inarecentsciencecompetition,thethreestudentswereawardedscholarshipstotaling$21,000.
Withthepossibleexceptionofequalrights,perhapsthemostcontroversialissueacrosstheUnitedStatestodayisthedeathpe
Atthebeginningoflastcentury,medicalscientistsmadeaninterestingdiscovery:wearebuiltnotjustoffleshandbloodbut
Extensivenewstudiessuggestthattheworldhasmadeextraordinaryprogressinreducingpovertyinrecentdecades.Theresearch
Crimehasitsowncycles,amagazinereportedsomeyearsago.Policerecordsthatwerestudiedforfiveyearsfromover2400cit
Internetuseappearstocauseadropinpsychologicalhealth,accordingtoresearchatCarnegieMellonUniversity.Evenpeop
ToswimacrosstheEnglishChanneltakesatleastninehours.It’sahardworkanditmakesyoushortofbreath.Toflyoverthe
TheChinesehaveusedamethodcalledacupuncture(针炙)toperformoperationsforabout4,000yearswithoutputtingthepatientto
Generallyspeaking,employersarelookingfortwothingsinjobapplicants:proofthatacandidatecanhandleaspecificjoband
随机试题
“物、物质无非是各种物的总和,而这个概念就是从这一总和中抽象出来的”表达的是()
呼吸补泻手法中,欲补之时,当取
男性,30岁,患十二指肠溃疡4年,突发上腹剧痛5小时,继而全腹痛、大汗。查体:全腹压痛、反跳痛。十二指肠溃疡穿孔,在哪一部位多见
莱菔子使用的注意事项是
证券公司从事自营业务,只能使用自有资金。( )
阅读下面材料,回答问题。张老师不断学习,制定新的幼儿教育方案,让幼儿有更多快乐和精彩的童年,当别的老师在思考怎么管住幼儿的时候,张老师制定了主题周式教学方案,每周通过一个主题开展活动、做游戏。“种子的秘密”是通过让幼儿搜集资料,观察种子的生长状况
一、注意事项1.申论考试是对应考者阅读理解能力、综合分析能力、提出和解决问题能力、文字表达能力的测试。2.仔细阅读给定资料,按照后面提出的“作答要求”作答。二、给定资料1.当2009年年初第一次听镇里的干部说中央要给钱整治农村
如果学校的财务部门没有人上班,我们的支票就不能入账;我们的支票不能入账,因此,学校的财务部门没有人上班。请在下列各项中选出与上句推理结构最为相似的一句?
对国家和社会治理而言,法治和德治都非常重要且不可或缺。法治是治国理政的基本方式,依法治国是基本方略,法治具有根本性、决定性和统一性,它强调对任何人都一律平等,任何人都必须遵守法律。德治是治国理政的重要方式,以德治国就是通过在全社会培育、弘扬社会主义核心价值
Howtodisposeofnuclearwasteisaninternationalissuecloudedbycontroversy.
最新回复
(
0
)