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?

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.

A、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.
B、Lebsock has addressed the controversy by using women's current status as a frame of reference.
C、Lebsock has analyzed statistics about occupations and property that were previously ignored.
D、Lebsock has applied recent historiographical methods to the biography of a nineteenth century woman.

答案：B

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问题：我选的A，因为原文说L考虑到将两个时代进行比较了，发现A不对之后想是因为A选项的Region原文没有提到，想问问老师是这样排除A吗？然后还想问一下怎么选的B，做题的时候感觉B用的词都特别空洞也不知道它在说啥想问问这种情况下怎么做？希望英吉老师回答一下，感觉您的方法比较简单粗暴。查看答疑

问题：这道题目为什么不选c 呀，题目问作者会同意Lebsock对于有关九世纪女性地位的争论做出了什么贡献。我定位到了14行，直接说L这部作品的差异是直接解决了这个问题。后面一堆细节都在详细展开如何解决的。我就秒出了C。想问问是哪里错了，答案是B的话是定位到23行。查看答疑

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