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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
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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.
Which of the following can be inferred about the novelists and historians mentioned in lines 27-28?
选项
A、They misunderstood the powerful influence of constrictive stereotypes on women in the East.
B、They assumed that the frontier had offered more opportunities to women than had the East.
C、They included accurate information about women’ s experiences on the frontier.
D、They underestimated the endurance and fortitude of frontier women.
E、They agreed with some of Turner’ s assumptions about frontier women, but disagreed with other assumptions that he made.
答案
B
解析
关于L27—28所说小说家和历史学家,文中指出:A.误解了东部偏见对妇女的影响。无。B.正确。他们设想边疆比东部地区给妇女提供了更多的机会。见原文L38—45。C.“accurate information”在文中推不出来,文中这些人对西部妇女的认识为后人所否定,作者并未提出自己推崇哪一个观点。D.低估西部妇女。正相反。E.同意T的部分观点,不同意另一部分。文中看不出这种选择。
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