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Current feminist theory, in validating womens own stories of their experience, has encouraged scholars of womens history 1. The passage is primarily concerned with to view the use of womens oral narratives as the methodology, next to the use of womens written autobiography, that brings ▪ (A) contrasting the benefits of one historians closest to the reality of womens lives. Such methodology with the benefits of narratives, unlike most standard histories, represent experience another from the of women, affirm the importance of womens contributions, and furnish present-day women with historical continuity that is essential to their identity, individually ▪ (B) describing the historical origins and and collectively. inherent drawbacks of a particular methodology Scholars of womens history should, however, be as cautious about accepting oral narratives at face value as they already ▪ (C) discussing the appeal of a particular are about written memories. Oral narratives are no more likely than are written narratives to provide a disinterested methodology and some concerns about commentary on events or people. Moreover, the stories people its use l to ex in themselves are shaped by narrative devices and story ling conventions, as well as by other cultural and ▪ (D) showing that some historians historical factors, in ways that the story lers may be unaware of. The political rhetoric of a particular era, for example, may adoption of a particular methodology influence womens interpretations of the significance of their has led to criticism of recent historical experience. Thus