It is intriguing that those two views are thought to be______; as a matter of fact, this opposition masks their inherent______.

(A) A widow who patriotically refused to remarry, even after her soldier husband was killed in battle
(B) A woman who shifted from working as a seamstress to running an army uniform factory
(C) A woman who dressed as a Southern soldier in order to cross enemy lines as a spy
(D) A woman who established a charity in order to collect money for prostheses for war amputees
(E) A woman who gave public speeches on the necessity of conserving for the war effort

(A) It lays too much importance upon the antebellum ideology of women’s nature and sphere.
(B) It fails to acknowledge that masculinization of women’s war-time efforts may have been detrimental to the feminist cause.
(C) It tends to overemphasize the role of women in shifting their status over the course of the war.
(D) It basis its thesis too exclusively on white, Yankee, middle-class women, ignoring every other social and racial class.
(E) It omits to articulate the precise antebellum moral definition of womanhood that is its theme.