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Two works published in 1984 demonstrate contrasting
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21 Dec 2011, 06:59
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 refi ne 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 (A) uses a large number of primary sources (B) ignores issues of women’s legal status (C) refuses to take a position on women’s status in the eighteenth century (D) addresses larger historiographical issues (E) fails to provide suffi cient material to support its claims
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The ‘redirect’ in the passage refers to the two decades of debate not to the 18th and 19th century. Think of it this way, a group is discussing an issue and a person comes along and basically says, “Hey, we have to think of this issue differently.”
In this case, the issue is women’s status in the 18th and 19th century. Lebsock clearly address this (or takes a position) in the lines:
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.
The focus of course is the question, which is asking how she differs from B&B. For (C) to be the correct answer, the passage would need to clearly indicate that Lebsock never took a position. Perhaps the debate was too vague, etc. And, by contrast, the passage would have to outline how B&B clearly took a position.
According to the passage, though, the difference between B&B and Lebsock is clear:
“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”
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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.
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27 Dec 2011, 06:44
I was confused b/w C & D coz both applies to Lebsock. I think C is NOT correct coz even Buel did NOT take any position for women's status and question is how Buel and Lebsock DIFFERS in their approach. What do you think ...
It happens to me, i find the answer to my queries when i post them on forum strange but true..
Re: Two works published in 1984 demonstrate contrasting
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As to why the answer is not (C), the passage says that Lebsock is redirecting the debate on women's status in the eighteenth vs. the nineteenth century. To say that she is redirecting the debate means she is shifting the focus of the debate. In doing so, she is answering the question regarding women's status in the eighteenth vs. nineteenth century (the passage goes on to articulate her position on the issue), not, as answer (C) states, "refusing to take a position..."
(D) is the answer because the passage states that, unlike Lebsock, Buel and Buel make little effort to place the biography in the context of the historiography on women.
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28 Dec 2011, 07:16
Chris,
"redirect" is used to emphasize the redirection from 18th to 19th century. Read below:
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
Also she is debating, till the end of passage, whether women lost or gained status which shows she hasn't taken any position.
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