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