Practitioners of the new scholarship discussed in the last paragraph would be most likely to agree with which one of the following statements about Dexter's argument? A. It makes the assumption that women's status is determined primarily by their political power in society. B. It makes the assumption that a less complex social system necessarily confers higher status on women. C. It is based on inadequate research on women's economic role in the colonies. D. It places too much emphasis on the way definitions of gender roles affected women colonists in the colonial period. E. It accurately describes the way women's status declined in the nineteenth century.