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  3. Simone de Beauvoir’s work greatly influenced Betty Firedan’s—indeed, made it possible. Why, then, was it Friedan who became the

Simone de Beauvoir’s work greatly influenced Betty Firedan’s—indeed, made it possible. Why, then, was it Friedan who became the

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问题    Simone de Beauvoir’s work greatly influenced Betty Firedan’s—indeed, made it possible. Why, then, was it Friedan who became the prophet of women’s emancipation in the United States? Political conditions, as well as a certain anti-intellectual bias, prepared Americans and the American media to better receive Friedan’ s deradicalized and highly pragmatic The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963, than Beauvoir’s theoretical reading of women’s situation in The Second Sex. In 1953 when The Second Sex first appeared in translation in the United States, the country had entered the silent, fearful fortress of the anticommunist McCarthy years (1950- 1954), and Beauvoir was suspected of Marxist sympathies. Even The Nation, a generally liberal magazine, warned its readers against "certain political leanings" of the author.  Open acknowledgment of the existence of women’s oppression was too radical for the United States in the fifties, and Beauvoir’ s conclusion, that change in women’s economic condition, though insufficient by itself, "remains the basic factor" in improving women’s situation, was particularly unacceptable.
According to the passage, one difference between The Feminine Mystique and The Second Sex is that the former______.
选项 A、rejects the idea that women are oppressed
B、contains anti-intellectual biases
C、does not reflect the political beliefs of its author
D、concentrates on the practical aspects of women’s emancipation
答案D
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