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.


According to the passage, Lebsock's work differs from Buel and Buel's work in that Lebsock's work


uses a large number of primary sources

ignores issues of women's legal status

refuses to take a position on women's status in the eighteenth century

addresses larger historiographical issues

fails to provide sufficient material to support its claims

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题目分析:

文章推断题:根据文章,L和B的works不同点是,L的work?

选项分析:

A选项:用了大量的原始资料:原文没有提到“原始资料”。

B选项:忽略了女性的法律地位:原文没有提到“法律地位”。

C选项:没有考虑女性在18世纪的地位:文章中提到L研究了18和19世纪的女性的地位。

D选项:正确。
强调了更大的史学地位:文章对比L和B,认为L在史学背景下讨论了女性的地位,而B没有。

E选项:
没有提供充足的资料:文章没有提到L的资料不足。

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