Progressive women's initial reactions to Freudian ideas were

A) negative because he only wrote about women.
B) positive because he never wrote about women.
C) negative because he wrote about female sexuality.
D) positive because he wrote about female sexuality.

Progressive women initially had a positive reaction to Freudian ideas because he was one of the few thinkers who actually wrote about female sexuality. Freud's ideas challenged the traditional notions of women's sexuality being passive and non-existent, and instead recognized the importance of sexual desire and pleasure for women. This was seen as a progressive and liberating perspective for women, although later feminist scholars critiqued Freud's ideas for being too focused on male perspectives and for reinforcing gender stereotypes.