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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, one difference between The Feminine Mystique and The Second Sex is that Friedan’s book ______.
选项 A、rejects the idea that women are oppressed
B、provides a primarily theoretical analysis of women’s lives
C、does not reflect the political beliefs of its author
D、concentrates on the practical aspects of the question of women’s emancipation
答案D
解析 根据短文，《女性的神秘》和《第二性别》的一个差异在于弗里丹的书注重妇女解放问题中的一些实际的方面。作者提到弗里丹的著作《女性的神秘》，并在前面用了一个形容词pragmatic，意为“讲求实际的”，提到了贝弗的作品《第二性别》，说它是理论读物。这说明弗里丹的书《女性的神秘》注重实际，贝弗的书《第二性别》偏重于理论。
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