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Confinement and Arrested Development
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What is the "general law" Gilman states links economic dependence to arrested development?
A
Economic dependence always produces greater physical strength over generations
B
Development is arrested only in males who depend economically on females
C
Economic conditions have no measurable effect on physical or mental development
D
Where a female's livelihood depends on a male rather than on the wider world, both natural and sexual selection push her toward sex-development rather than general race-development — as seen in insects like the gypsy moth
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