应该是c, In contrast with Ghana, where women had traded for hundreds of years and achieved legal majority ,在其他地方女性在殖民地前是有地位的,只有在Kenya,the evidence regarding central Kenya indicated that women were legal minors and were sometimes treated as male property. 希望楼主能看到并在明天取得高分
BC的比较:change表示的是最终还是要改变这个观点的,但是第二段最后的结论中,依然说age was a primary principle,只不过superseded gender的程度要依据situation来改变,所以说R之前和之后关于gender的地位是没有概念的。这样就排除B啦。
再看C,(感觉GMAC在这里设了一个极端词汇only的陷阱)。根据上面的分析,之前R都是一位age普遍是占主导地位的,而gender只在 after colonialism才became a defining characteristic。所以研究的前后改变了这个gender的地位。