Question

According to the passage, feminist scholars cite Burckhardt's view of Renaissance women primarily for which of the following reasons?

• A. Burckhardt's view forms the basis for most arguments refuting Kelly's point of view.
• B. Burckhardt's view has been discredited by Kelly.
• C. Burckhardt's view is one that many feminist scholars wish to refute.
• D. Burckhardt’s work provides rich historical evidence of inequality between Renaissance women and men.
• E. Burckhardt's work includes historical research supporting the arguments of the feminist scholars.

Answer 1

The correct option is C Burckhardt's view is one that many feminist scholars wish to refute.

Option C is the correct answer as in the given passage both Kelly and Burckhardt made based on their observation about upper-class women .as Burckhardt and Kelly in her famous essay written in 1977 about women argued that this was the period where the social decline of women.

A significant scholar has rejected this theory of Kelly and Burckhardt.

Kronitiris is concerned with women's achievements, the power of Renaissance optimistic achievements.

She suggests that such verbal opposition to cultural stereotypes was highly circumscribed. So many scholars refute the theory of Kelly and Burckhardt about the Renaissance period of women.