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【单选题】In large part as a consequence of the feminist movement, historians have focused a great deal of attention in recent years on determining more accurately the status of women in various periods.Although much has been accomplished for the modern period, premodern cultures have proved more difficult: sources are restricted in number, fragmentary, difficult to interpret, and often contradictory. Thus it is not particularly surprising that some earlier scholarship concerning such cultures has so far gone unchallengeD、An example is JohannaBachofen’s 1861 treatise onAmazons, women-ruled societies of questionable existence contemporary with ancient Greece.,
Starting from the premise that mythology and legend preserve at least a nucleus of historical fact,Bachofen argued that women were dominant in many ancient societies. His work was based on a comprehensive survey of references in the ancient sources toAmazonian and other societies with matrilineal customs-societies in which descent and property rights are traced through the female line. Some support for his theory can be found in evidence such as that drawn from Herodotus, the Greek "historian" of the fifth century
B、C、, who speaks of anAmazonian society, the Sauromatae, where the women hunted and fought in wars.
A、woman in this society was not allowed to marry until she had killed a person in battle.
Nonetheless, this assumption that the first recorders of ancient myths have preserved facts is problematiC、If one begins by examining why ancients refer toAmazons, it becomes clear that ancient Greek descriptions of such societies were meant not so much to represent observed historical fact--realAmazonian societies--but rather to offer "moral lessons" on the supposed outcome of women’ rule in their own society. TheAmazons were often characterized, for example, as the equivalents of giants and centaurs, enemies to be slain by Greek heroes. Their customs were presented not as those of a respectable society, but as the very antitheses of ordinary Greek practices.
Thus, I would argue, the purpose of accounts of theAmazons for their male Greek recorders was didactic to teach both male and female Greeks that all-female groups, formed by withdrawal from traditional society, are destructive and dangerous. Myths about theAmazons were used as arguments for the male-dominated status quoin, in which groups composed exclusively of other sex were not permitted to segregate themselves permanently from society.Bachofen was thus misled in this reliance on myths for information about the status of women. The sources that will probably tell contemporary historians most about women in the ancient world are such social documents as gravestones, wills, and marriage contracts. Studies of such documents have already begun to show how mistaken we are when we try to derive our picture of the ancient world exclusively from literary sources, especially myths.
The author’s attitude towardBachofen’s treatise is best described as one of ______.

A、qualified approval
B、profound ambiguity
C、studied neutrality D、pointed disagreement
网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
这是一道态度题。文章最后一段指出：这种依赖于寻求有关女性地位信息的做法误导了贝切芬；像墓碑、遗嘱以及婚姻合约这类社会档案的研究已经开始显示——当我们企图只从文字材料中获取古代社会的信息时，我们是如何犯错误的。这说明，作者不同意贝切芬有关女性居统治地位的观点。D“明显不同意”，与作者的态度相符。A与作者的态度相反；文中明确指出了贝切芬论文的错误，表达了自己与其不同的观点，所以B和C与作者的观点不符。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>