GRE Reading Comprehension: ETS-GRE阅读ETS - MW5427M7WKC9326E7

The passage suggests that the historians mentioned would be most likely to agree with which one of the following statements? A. The shift from land-based to commercial wealth changed views about property but did not significantly benefit married women until the late eighteenth century. B. Despite initial judicial resistance to women's contractual rights, marriage contracts represented a significant gain for married women. C. Although marriage contracts incorporated a series of surface changes and a rhetoric of equality, they did not ultimately benefit married women. D. Changing views about property and democracy in post-Restoration England had an effect on property laws that was beneficial to women. E. Although contractual rights protecting women's property represented a small gain for married women, most laws continued to be more beneficial for men than for women.