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Historians who study European women of the Renaissance try to measure "independence," "options," and other indicators of the deg

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问题 Historians who study European women of the Renaissance try to measure "independence," "options," and other indicators of the degree to which the expression of women’s individuality was either permitted or suppressed. Influenced by Western individualism, these historians define a peculiar form of personhood: an innately bounded unit, autonomous and standing apart from both nature and society. An anthropologist, however, would contend that a person can be conceived in ways other than as an "individual." In many societies a person’s identity is not intrinsically unique and self-contained but instead is defined within a complex web of social relationships.
In her study of the fifteenth-century Florentine widow Alessandra Strozzi, a historian who specializes in European women of the Renaissance attributes individual intention and authorship of actions to her subject. This historian assumes that Alessandra had goals and interests different from those of her sons, yet much of the historian’s own research reveals that Alessandra acted primarily as a champion of her sons’ interests, taking their goals as her own. Thus Alessandra conforms more closely to the anthropologist’s notion that personal motivation is embedded in a social context. Indeed, one could argue that Alessandra did not distinguish her personhood from that of her sons. In Renaissance Europe the boundaries of the conceptual self were not always firm and closed and did not necessarily coincide with the boundaries of the bodily self.
It can be inferred that the author of the passage believes which of the following about the study of Alessandra Strozzi done by the historian mentioned in the second paragraph?
选项 A、Alessandra was atypical of her time and was therefore an inappropriate choice for the subject of the historian’s research.
B、In order to bolster her thesis, the historian adopted the anthropological perspective on personhood.
C、The historian argues that the boundaries of the conceptual self were not always firm and closed in Renaissance Europe.
D、In her study, the historian reverts to a traditional approach that is out of step with the work of other historians of Renaissance Europe.
E、The interpretation of Alessandra’s actions that the historian puts forward is not supported by much of the historian’s research.
答案E
解析 Inference
The passage tells us that the historian who studied Strozzi "attributes individual intention and authorship of actions" to her. But the passage author claims that much of the historian’s own research supports the view that, contrary to the historian’s interpretation, "Alessandra did not distinguish her personhood from that of her sons"—and therefore that her actions did not primarily express personal autonomy.
A Nothing in the passage implies that this is true or that the passage author believes it was so.
B The passage is in direct contradiction with this claim about the historian, and it strongly suggests that the author of the passage would reject this claim.
C The passage author makes this point concerning "the boundaries of the conceptual self" as part of the critique of the historian’s approach.
D The passage author characterizes the historian’s approach neither as traditional nor as nontraditional; nor does the passage author contrast the historians approach with that of any other historian.
E Correct. The passage author suggest that much of the historian’s research provides support for an interpretation that is incompatible with the historian’s own interpretation.
The correct answer is E.
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