The Role Of Women In 1691 To 1692

Women in the mid-1600s to mid-1700s underwent pivotal changes. While these changes would alter their roles in the colonies, certain aspects of their responsibilities remained the same.

In 17th century Euro-America Puritan society believed that men played a patriarchal role upon women, and that this role was instituted by God and nature. The seniority of men over women lay within both the household and the public sphere. The household, immediate family living in the same dwelling was subject to the male as head figure of the house. The public sphere also known as the social life within the Puritan community consisted of two echelons. These echelons consisted of formal and informal public. The formal public consisted of woman and indentured servants. Women were to stay within the informal public and stay in the shadows of the men. The government held large ties with the church in the 17th century. Though women were

During the 18th century, women were treated like slaves. They had little authority regarding anything. Women didn’t have the right to vote or the right to own property. Only a spinster or widow woman could own and manage property until they married. Women were owned by the husband just as he owned material possessions. Many women were trapped in loveless marriages and those without families were seen as outcasts. The husband was legally entitled to beat his wife for disobedience. Divorces were rarely granted and women usually ran away from bad marriages. As you read, I will talk about

Throughout most of history women generally have had fewer legal rights and career opportunities than men. Wifehood and motherhood were regarded as women's most significant professions. Since early times women have been uniquely viewed as a creative source of human life. Historically, however, they have been considered not only intellectually inferior to men but also a major source of temptation and evil. Colonial women faced the harsh realities of childbirth, housework, and serving their husbands because it was tradition. The ways of the ‘old country’ culture was forced upon a new one, disallowing any room for new ideals. Although constrained by society Colonial women have had their part in shaping America.

The start-up of the New England colonies were religious, as they were making a pilgrimage from England as the only acceptable religion in England at the time was Anglicanism and most of these settlers were English puritans. Even though they left England for religious reasons, most of the New England settlers would only allow religions closest to their own, in order to settle with them. There weren’t any specific groups yet, knowing the fact that most people in New England were poor until the 1700’s.

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In early 1692, a priest’s daughter and niece started to act out. They had raging fits, made weird sounds, and continuously complained of fever and pain. As time went on more and more girls were affected, that’s when adults started being concerned. After the doctor examined the girls and tested all of his remedies, and declared that it was supernatural. The girls were questioned if they knew someone who would do this to them they listed three women: Tituba (an Indian slave), Sarah Good (a beggar), and Sarah Osborne (a local gossip).

During the medieval times, women were not seen as they are today. Although in the world today there are still those who are full of misogyny, it was much more common and intense during this time period. Women during the middle ages had specific roles assigned to them in society. These roles depended on the type of women they were, whether it be a peasant, noble woman, or an evil temptress. These roles that women have served have shown up in numerous stories from the middle ages including: Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and The Wife’s Lament.

Puritans was the name given in the sixteenth century to the more extreme Protestants within the Church of England who thought that the English Reformation had not gone sufficiently far in improving the teachings and structure of the congregation. They needed to cleanse their National Church by eliminating the Catholic influence on it. In the seventeenth century, numerous Puritans migrated to the New World, where they sought to establish a holy commonwealth. This culture remained as the prevailing social power throughout the nineteenth century as well. Although both, Puritan men and women were to achieve the goal together, the Puritan women were considered to be inferior to men in the “ male dominated society” that resulted in women living a restricted life in terms of religion, Social life and married life.

The events leading to the trials was a series of young women in Salem Village, Massachusetts claiming to be possessed by others in the town by the use of witchcraft. Most notably, Reverend Parris’ family is thought to have originated the chain of events as his daughter Betty and his niece Abigail Williams, fell very ill and suffered from violent outbursts. Once the girls were visited by a doctor, they were diagnosed with being bewitched. Following the visit from the doctor, Reverend Parris pressured the young girls to reveal the witch that was tormenting them. This ultimately led to the girls naming Tituba, who was Parris’ slave, as guilty. The girls claimed that Tituba led them through a fortune telling practice and it was likely the cause of their afflictions. When Tituba was arrested a few days later, she falsely confessed that she was a witch and stated that there were other witches in Salem. This allowed Tituba to narrowly escape death as a result. The colonists of the Salem Village panicked after Tituba’s claims and began a massive witch hunt in order to find the other accused witches.As a result, Sarah Good and Sarah Osborne were also accused of being witches. Both women were outcasts of the community as Good was a beggar and Osborne married a servant and bore a child of mixed race. However, these false witchcraft accusations were taken much more seriously after Tituba’s false

Life during colonial America was bleak; in many colonies such as Jamestown or Plymouth, from fewer than 150 people, a new community an ocean away from their old homes had to be created. Factors like agriculture, shelter, and economy were no exception to the long list of necessary things that needed to be developed. At first, the colonial people continued to abide by the same customs that they had back in Europe. As time passed, though, they began to have a different approach. One of the norms in Europe was that women were to stay inside the house to attend to housework and to take care of their children. However, in colonial America, that wasn’t the only thing expected from women; the role of women changed drastically. Despite it being considered improper in Europe for women to work outdoors or tend to businesses like men, colonial women joined men outside with tasks ranging from agricultural duties to handling business affairs (Bjornlund 24). Consequently, colonial American women played a critical role in the success of their families and the American colonies, as well as America’s independence.

Even though British America was constantly growing and developing for almost two hundred years, the role that men and women played in society remained consistent. As patriarch of the house, the man was responsible for earning the money, working to support his family, sitting in on town meetings, and holding overall power above the household. The woman was a household benefactor, in charge of keeping the house clean, preparing meals, and bearing children. It seemed that each person had their place: a man was meant to be tough, strong leaders, while the women were simply meant to be domestic housewives. However, change in the colonies began not only in the economy and settlements, but also in gender roles. Women were the only ones who had quiet

The diverse cultures in the English colonies allowed for family life as well as a women’s role in each of the colonies to vary. During that period the men greatly outnumbered the women; this allowed for women to have choose marry who they please. Unlike in the Northern Colonies where the sex ratio was more equal, there were fewer men that were not married. Fathers in the north also lived to see this age which allowed them to allowed them to exercise their control on their daughter’s future husband. Also, the South was more flexible with their standards of sexual behavior. So much so, that one third of the women married were already pregnant. This went against the Puritan north that contained frigid ideals of sexual behavior. Despite these differences

During the eighteenth century, cultural revolutions plunged into modifying the perception of political, social, and religious views. Outcomes from the French and American revolutions, wars, the age of Enlightenment, and spiritual revivals were changing the traditional cultural ideals. Many conservative evangelists were emphasizing moral piety, trusting social hierarchy, and deciding whether they wanted to remain faithful to the Church of England. Coping with gender inequality, there were some women who played a vital role in evangelistic work, reforming the perception of women’s low intelligence, setting the way for future gender equality. In England, a young and humbled Hannah More effectively paved the way for moral and social activism, empowering

Women in the 18th century were looked at as voiceless objects in a world ruled by men. Women and men did not always have equal rights. In the 18th century women were mainly defined by their family and household roles. The woman did not really have legal identity apart from their husbands. Women were look at as slaves because all they did was be at the house and satisfy their husbands in what they wanted. Men would have total control over his wife’s property. The woman also did not have the right to vote unlike men. Some things that women did not have the right of was to vote, own property, could not sit in a jury trial, and could not be a part of a lawsuit. In 1830, a number of women in the United States argued for the right of woman to own their property and to divorce. In the 18th century gothic literature was happening. Gothic literature was in fiction, art, music, poetry, film, and television. Gothic tradition also includes sense with extreme emotion, fear, madness, and death. Death as a tomb, entombment was also used which is to be placed in a tomb be buried. A feminist writer, publisher, social activist, public lecture, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, said that women depending on men made them unquestionable slaves to them in the United States society. Perkins married the artist Charles Stetson in1884, which then both had a daughter named Katherine. A story that she wrote that can illustrate how women were like in the 18th century is “The Yellow Wallpaper”. The story “The