Traditional social science models of class groups in the United States are based on economic status and assume that women's economic status derives from association with men, typically fathers or husbands, and that women therefore have more compelling common interest with men of their own economic class than with women outside it. Some feminist social scientists, by contrast, have argued that the basic division in American society is instead based on gender, and that the total female population, regardless of economic status, constitutes a distinct class. Social historian Mary Ryan, for example, has argued that in early-nineteenth-century America the identical legal status of working-class and middle-class free women outweighed the differences between women of these two classes: married women, regardless of their family's wealth, did essentially the same unpaid domestic work, and none could own property or vote. Recently, though, other feminist analysts have questioned this model, examining ways in which the condition of working-class women differs from that of middle-class women as well as from that of working-class men. Ann Oakley notes, for example, that the gap between women of different economic classes widened in the late nineteenth century: most working-class women, who performed wage labor outside the home, were excluded from the emerging middle-class ideal of femininity centered around domesticity and volunteerism.

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It can be inferred from the passage that the most recent feminist social science research on women and class seeks to do which of the following?


Introduce a divergent new theory about the relationship between legal status and gender

Illustrate an implicit middle-class bias in earlier feminist models of class and gender

Provide evidence for the position that gender matters more than wealth in determining class status

Remedy perceived inadequacies of both traditional social science models and earlier feminist analyses of class and gender

Challenge the economic definitions of class used by traditional social scientists

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推断（Inference）
旨在考察我们对文章的深度理解，以及逻辑推断能力。

通过题设，我们可以把这个题目定位在文章的后半部分。首先，通过文章，我们知道，现代的一些女权主义者的观点和传统的观点以及以前的女权主义者的观点都不相同。



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A选项：提出一个分歧的关于法律地位和性别的关系的新理论。文章的只有Ryan的观点提到法律地位，传统观点所涉及的是经济地位。而法律地位和性别属于同一类的观点（Ryan提到了法律状态，是性别区分阶层的一个例子），是早期社会学家的观点。

B选项：说明一个在早期的女权阶层和性别模式中暗含的中产阶级偏见。文中的第三个观点说的是女性地位与同阶层的男性和不同阶层的女性都不相同，和是否有中产阶级偏见无关。

C选项：提出支持“性别比财富更能决定阶层地位”的证据。现代女权主义者的研究不是提供支持前面所述的两个观点的其中一个，而是说出这两个观点都有不足。

D选项：Correct. 修正传统和早期女权主义者关于阶层和性别的观点的不全面之处。如“考点”所说，现代的观点与前述的两个都不同，而且是指出了那两个观点的不足（examining ways in which the condition of working-class women differs from that of middle-class women as well as from that of working-class men），即前面的两个观点都有不对的地方。

E选项：攻击传统观点的阶层经济定义。这个选项说的不够完全，第三个观点要说攻击，也是直接攻击的早期女权主义者的观点（文中说现代女权主义者质疑早期女权主义者提出的模型）。其实第三个观点主要是修正前两个观点的不足，不完全是用经济地位来划分阶层，但也不完全由性别来划分阶层。

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