Two works published in 1984 demonstrate contrasting approaches to writing the history of United States women. Buel and Buel's biography of Mary Fish (1736–1818) makes little effort to place her story in the context of recent historiography on women. Lebsock, meanwhile, attempts not only to write the history of women in one southern community, but also to redirect two decades of historiographical debate as to whether women gained or lost status in the nineteenth century as compared with the eighteenth century. Although both books offer the reader the opportunity to assess this controversy regarding women's status, only Lebsock's deals with it directly. She examines several different aspects of women's status, helping to refine and resolve the issues. She concludes that while women gained autonomy in some areas, especially in the private sphere, they lost it in many aspects of the economic sphere. More importantly, she shows that the debate itself depends on frame of reference: in many respects, women lost power in relation to men, for example, as certain jobs (delivering babies, supervising schools) were taken over by men. Yet women also gained power in comparison with their previous status, owning a higher proportion of real estate, for example. In contrast, Buel and Buel's biography provides ample raw material for questioning the myth, fostered by some historians, of a colonial golden age in the eighteenth century but does not give the reader much guidance in analyzing the controversy over women's status.

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With which of the following characterizations of Lebsock's contribution to the controversy concerning women's status in the nineteenth-century United States would the author of the passage be most likely to agree?


Lebsock has studied women from a formerly neglected region and time period.

Lebsock has demonstrated the importance of frame of reference in answering questions about women's status.

Lebsock has addressed the controversy by using women's current status as a frame of reference.

Lebsock has analyzed statistics about occupations and property that were previously ignored.

Lebsock has applied recent historiographical methods to the biography of a nineteenth-century woman.

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文章推断题：关于L的观点的特点，作者同意哪一点？

选项分析：

A选项：L研究一个之前比被忽视的地区和时间段：L研究了一个南方群体，和之前的二十年，但没有提这个地区和时间段有没有被忽视。

B选项：正确。L展示了，在研究女性地位的问题时，参照物的重要性：L认为女性地位在不同领域有不同变化，证明了具体问题具体分析的重要性。

C选项：L通过研究现阶段的女性地位来参与争论：文章没有提到L在研究currentstatus。


D选项：L分析了之前被忽视的职业财产的数据：原文没有提到。

E选项：L在分析一个19世纪女人的自传时，运用了近期的史学研究方法：L分析的是一个南方社群，而不仅仅是某一个女人。

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