medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
A history passage describes a traditional view holding that marriage contracts represented progress for women. It then introduces the historian Staves, who challenges that interpretation, argues the apparent gains were undermined in practice, and in doing so revises her own earlier position. This unfolds against a backdrop of wealth shifting from land to commerce.
Which one of the following can be inferred about Staves?
- Staves formerly held a view that aligned more closely with the traditional interpretation than her present view does.
- Staves maintains that marriage contracts had no effect at all on women's legal standing.
- Staves was the original author of the traditional view among historians.
- Staves's earlier work rested chiefly on a misreading of the shift in wealth from land to commerce.
- Staves now regards the traditional view as the most influential interpretation in the field.
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