DISCUSSION: The historians argued that the contractual changes to marriage helped women. The historians thought the changes reflected post-1660 assumptions about property.
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- It sounds like the historians thought the changes benefitted women as soon as they happened.
- The second half of this answer is right, but the historians never mentioned any judicial resistance to women’s contractual rights.
- This is Staves’ argument. Line 6 says the historians thought the changes helped women.
- CORRECT. Line 6 says this directly. The historians thought the changes helped women.
- The historians never mention “most laws”. And line 6 says the laws were “a gain”. We don’t know whether the historians thought they were a big or a small gain.