单选题 With which of the following criticisms of Leonard's theory would the author of the passage be most likely to agree?

• (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.