In what way was Catharine Beecher's A Treatise on Domestic Economy profoundly influential in the first half of the nineteenth century?
A) It helped shift the official status of women well beyond what it had been in the colonial era because it put pressure on male politicians.
B) It argued convincingly that women should enter the man's sphere of professions in order to contribute to the American economy.
C) It served as a call to action for two breakthroughs for women of the time: the right to serve on juries and sign contracts.
D) It called upon women to accept their roles and promoted the idea that women should be trained not for the workplace but for the domestic arts.
E) It represented the views of all middle-class women who devoted themselves to improving the quality of life in America.
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