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They are highly educated, have massive earning potential and were brought up to believe that sexual equality was their right. Bu

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问题     They are highly educated, have massive earning potential and were brought up to believe that sexual equality was their right. But a new kind of post-feminist is emerging that would have the suffragettes (主张争取选举权的女性) turning in their graves. The new-conservative housewife has given up her high-status job, grown out her power bob (短发) and stays at home with the children and the vacuum cleaner.
    Of course there is nothing new about women giving up careers to look after children but these housewives prefer to be called "home managers".
    The American writer Danielle Crittenden is a champion for this reinvented breed of homemaker in her new book Amanda Bright@Home. Her husband David Frum, a former White House speech writer, invented the phrase "axis of evil". Crittenden’s theories on modern motherhood have put her at the top of the feminists’ hate list. Betty Friedan says Crittenden is anti-women.
    Crittenden’s novel started as a hugely popular fictional column in The Wall Street Journal. The protagonist (主人公) Amanda, a fashionable, middle-class Washington mother who has given up her job to look after her two young children, struck a chord with thousands in the same position. Amanda misses the status and the beige suits that went with her job and struggles chaotically, like a grown-up Bridget Jones, with shopping and household chores.
    Ultimately, however, Crittenden’s heroine believes that staying at home is the right thing to do and in real life the author celebrates the role of the stay-at-home mum, believing that pre-school children need to be with their mothers in the daytime. It may sound like a return to the pre-feminist 1950s but it is hard to write Crittenden off as old-fashioned.
    Setting out in Amanda Bright@Home Crittenden writes: "Her grandmother’s World War Two generation had embraced motherhood and rejected careers; her mother’s postwar generation rejected motherhood and embraced careers. And Amanda’s?"
    A recent poll on the site showed that if money were not an issue most mothers would prefer not to work at all. A large minority would like to work part-time but only a few favored full-time work. Some however, undergo an enlightenment and decide they never want to return to their high-speed existence.
It is most probable that Amanda Bright Home started most appreciated by ________.
选项 A、middle class women trapped between job and family
B、well-educated women with massive earning potential
C、housewives who have to struggle with shopping and household chores
D、housewives who have pre-school children to take care of in the daytime
答案A
解析 第4段第2句的谓语struck a chord with…表明这本小说引起了很多人的共鸣，而这些人是与阿曼达.布莱特具有相同处境的人，根据该句中描述阿曼达.布莱特的定语可知，这些人指的就是为了家庭而不得不放弃职业的妇女，由此可见，选项A为本题答案。本题的答案简单来说就是“后女权主义者”，选项B显然不是后女权主义者；选项C和D都只强调了家庭生活这一方面，忽略了阿曼达.布莱特具有的中产阶级身份和在工作与家庭之间面临的艰难选择。
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