45. It can be inferred from the passage that the author believes that study of
Saint-Simonianism is necessary for historians of American feminism because such
study
(A) would clarify the ideological origins of those feminist ideas that influenced
American feminism
(B) would increase understanding of a movement that deeply influenced the
utopian socialism of early American feminists
(C) would focus attention on the most important aspect of Saint-Simonian thought
before 1832
(D) promises to offer insight into a movement that was a direct outgrowth of the
Seneca Falls conference of 1848
(E) could increase understanding of those ideals that absorbed most of the energy
of the earliest American feminists