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 the marriage contracts had no effect whatsoever, of any kind, on women's legal standing in that era.
- Staves was herself the original author of the traditional progress interpretation among the historians of that period.
- Staves's earlier work rested chiefly on a plain misreading of the gradual shift in wealth from land into commerce.
- Staves now regards the traditional progress view as the single most influential interpretation within her own field.
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