DISCUSSION: The passage is all about Staves. The author presents Staves’ theory that the contractual elements of marriages did not help women.
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- This only describes the first half of paragraph one. It completely ignores Staves.
- Staves doesn’t say this. She just says that the contractual features did not help women, because the courts interpreted them unfavorably.
- CORRECT. This is Staves’ argument, and Staves is the focus of the passage.
- The cases show contractual features. The problem is that judges interpreted the features in a way that reduced their benefit for women.
- This completely ignores Staves, and it’s not clear that it’s true. There may have been some ways for women to get financial power, even if they faced discrimination.
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