outlining the direction of future reserves
providing an additional example of a phenomenon
introducing a conflicting hypothesis
In The Women of Mexico City, 1796-1857, Sylvia Marina Arrom argues that the status of women in Mexico City improved during the nineteenth century. According to Arrom, households headed by females and instances of women working outside the home were much more common than scholars have estimated; efforts by the Mexican government to encourage female education resulted in increased female literacy; and influential male writers wrote pieces advocating education, employment, and increased family responsibilities for women, while deploring womens political and marital inequality. Mention of the fact that the civil codes of 1870 and 1884 significantly advanced womens rights would have further strengthened Arroms argument.
Arrom does not discuss whether womens improved status counteracted the effects on women of instability in the Mexican economy during the nineteenth century. However, this is not so much a weakness in her work as it is the inevitable result of scholars neglect of this period. Indeed, such gaps in Mexican history are precisely what make Arroms pioneering study an important addition to Latin American womens history.
24. The passage is primarily concerned with doing which of the following?
Reviewing a historical study of the status of women in Mexico City during the nineteenth century
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