The settlement of the United States has occupied

 traditional historians since 1893 when Frederick Jackson

 Turner developed his Frontier Thesis, a thesis that

 explained American development in terms of westward

(5) expansion. From the perspective of women’s history,

 Turner’s exclusively masculine assumptions constitute a

 major drawback: his defenders and critics alike have

 reconstructed men’s, not women’s, lives on the frontier.

 However, precisely because of this masculine orientation,

(10)revising the Frontier Thesis by focusing on women’s

 experience introduces new themes into women’s

 history—woman as lawmaker and entrepreneur—and,

 consequently, new interpretations of women’s relation-

 ship to capital, labor, and statute.

(15)Turner claimed that the frontier produced the indivi-

 dualism that is the hallmark of American culture, and

 that this individualism in turn promoted democratic

 institutions and economic equality. He argued for the

 frontier as an agent of social change. Most novelists and

(20) historians writing in the early to midtwentieth century

 who considered women in the West, when they consid-

 ered women at all, fell under Turner’s spell. In their

 works these authors tended to glorify women’s contribu-

 tions to frontier life. Western women, in Turnerian tradi-

(25) tion, were a fiercely independent, capable, and durable

 lot, free from the constraints binding their eastern sisters.

 This interpretation implied that the West provided a

 congenial environment where women could aspire to

 their own goals, free from constrictive stereotypes and

(30) sexist attitudes. In Turnerian terminology, the frontier

 had furnished “a gate of escape from the bondage of the

 past.”

 By the middle of the twentieth century, the Frontier

   Thesis fell into disfavor among historians. Later, Reac-

(35)tionist writers took the view that frontier women were

   lonely, displaced persons in a hostile milieu that intensi-

   fied the worst aspects of gender relations. The renais-

   sance of the feminist movement during the 1970’s led to

   the Stasist school, which sidestepped the good bad

( 40)dichotomy and argued that frontier women lived lives

 similar to the live of women in the East. In one now-

 standard text, Faragher demonstrated the persistence of

 the “cult of true womanhood” and the illusionary qual-

 ity of change on the westward journey. Recently the

( 45) Stasist position has been revised but not entirely

   discounted by new research.

　　1. The primary purpose of the passage is to

　　(A) provide a framework within which the history of women in nineteenth-century America can be organized.

　　(B) discuss divergent interpretations of women’s experience on the western frontier

　　(C) introduce a new hypothesis about women’s experience in nineteenth-century America

　　(D) advocate an empirical approach to women’s experience on the western frontier

　　(E) resolve ambiguities in several theories about women’s experience on the western frontier

　　2. Which of the following can be inferred about the novelists and historians mentioned in lines 19-20?

　　(A) They misunderstood the powerful influence of constrictive stereotypes on women in the East.

　　(B) They assumed that the frontier had offered more opportunities to women than had the East.

　　(C) They included accurate information about women’s experiences on the frontier.

　　(D) They underestimated the endurance and fortitude of frontier women.

　　(E) They agreed with some of Turner’s assumptions about frontier women, but disagreed with other assumptions that he made.

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