Women Role in Late 1700s

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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).

According to the article “Rights for woman”, in the 1800 women were treated as subsequent class citizens, and they did not have many rights at all. They were not able to vote and were not encouraged to get an education, or even get a job that they enjoyed (Rights for Women, Par. 1). Women were expected to clean, cook, and find a husband. According to Juliet Levy, Marriage is an agreement that over all comes with substantial financial upbringing. (Levy, 427) As previously stated woman were worth less than men during that time, so the men were basically able to treat them however they wanted. Men were able to send their wives to insane asylums if they did not follow the rules or live up to the expectations of women of that time. According to an article on woman

This shows that women are starting to earn the respect of the men. Document E shows the point of view of a woman named Mercy Otis Warren in 1805. She admits that there are "certain appropriate duties to each sex" but still believes that one sex should not have complete power over the other. She states that although there are evident differences between men and women, every human should be able to have their own degree of freedom and liberty. Once the women began to have jobs, they realized that they were depending too much on what the men were telling them to do, when they knew that could take things into their own hands. This is shown in document L when Catherine E. Beecher makes suggestions on the way the women should teach in 1829. She says that the men believed the women should be teaching the children at home their morals, meaning what is right from wrong, and also their manors, and values. Catherine E. Beecher says that the women can teach this in the school rather than at home. She says now since the women finally can get jobs, they are still taking too many orders from the men. She thinks that they should just do this because it will benefit both the women and the children. Documents F, E, and L all show how the attitude of women changed from the mid to late 1700's to the early to mid 1800's.

Up until the middle of the 1800 women were not aloud to speak publically, vote, and had no influence on public affairs. They were stereotyped, forgotten, and did not have the same rights as men had. They didn’t receive the same education as men had, couldn’t own property, or have any legal rights. People believed that women belonged at home cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the children. They believed they had no place to speak their mind or have any influence in public affairs. However, during the pre-Civil war era, women such has Sarah and Angelica Grimké started to fight to change the way people viewed women.

Starting in the 1700s before the industrial revolution we can really see the biggest changes in what the work force looked like. This was a time before there were intricate machines and tools to help workers perform the tasks that were needed for almost every job. Because this was a time before machines and the tools needed to make jobs easier there was a limited amount of production happening on larger scales like we see now. Because of this, production was commonly very slow and tough work. Work was relatively simple and the number of specialized artistries was limited. The individuals that lived in the cities found new livings in creating handcrafted goods. These crafters worked in small workshops to create their good and at times would

In the sixteenth and seventeenth century, men and women had designated roles. Men were the head of their households while women were given the domestic duties such as the taking care of the home and raising the children. This type of social order was translated into society as well. Men were the ones who held positions of power and made the rules that women were expected to follow. Men justified their dominating attitude towards women by pointing towards certain passages in the Bible. Biblical texts during this time period were interpreted quite literally and at times out of context. But it was enough leverage for men to use against women, in order to keep women in their proper designated positions. Women simply accepted this unfortunate

The first half of the 19th century, women had no rights. A woman couldn’t do much of anything without her husband’s approval. “Her legal status was like that of a minor, a slave, or a free black” (404). Organized movements for women’s rights began in 1840. The two most prominent advocates for women’s rights were Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who refused to be merely “a household drudge” (404). They helped organize the Seneca Falls gathering which was one of the first steps towards women’s rights by proclaiming the equality of men and women. By the 1860s, the only jobs open to educated women were nursing and teaching. Although they made some legal gains, they were still unable to vote. Even the working-class women had little free

This article is about the woman in the 1790s how was discriminated against socially, culturally and economically in the United States. Showing that women at that time did not have any rights, their unique role in society was to be a housewife. Using the novel "Clarissa, or The History of a Young Lady," by Samuel Richardson that describe how the character was excluded for being women and the social conditions that women lived at that time. The author of the article shows the role of women in society and the abuses they suffered because at that time had no rights, resulting in gender

The eighteenth century brought great transitional change, as America dealt with government conflicts, the War of 1812, and the political elections which brought Andrew Jackson to national prominence. In the midst of these happenings, significant changes arose for the women in the eighteenth century, as they appealed to create differences in their status and lives. Equality is considered as a given right, but this was not always the case in history. The conventional organization of the family was considered as men expected to make their living in the competitive world of the marketplace, while women took care of their children in the sheltered environment of the home. Even prior to the eighteenth century, women did not obtain much freedom, as society was ruled with a patriarchal mindset. Whether it was in politics, church governance, or simply hierarchical status, men were always categorized above women. “Men viewed women with distrust, perhaps intuiting the impossible polarity this would create in their lives, and that it would ask decisions of them which they could not imagine taking.” This leads to the posed questions: Why were women initially closed off from having independent rights? How did women combat against these limited obligations and expand their status? Changes and implications were clearly made by women to declare their existence and importance in society. Breaking free from the conventional male dominated society, women assembled together to endorse changes

We certainly can’t pick our families, though I am sure many of us have had thoughts of what life would be like if we were born into a different lifestyle. While your ascribed status is the status you were born into, your achieved status is what you achieve during your life. Oftentimes people will let their circumstances dictate what they become, but those striving to attain a higher status will usually find a way to change their circumstances if possible.

In the early 18th century women had a role of a domestic leader of sorts. Women were in charge of leading the household and raising the children. One of the original roles of an 18th century women was not only to take care of the house, but also provide a source of income for the family. This was achieved through various different methods such as weaving and making fabric in their own homes. The fabric would then be sold to factories to be used in the mass production of various cloth goods. This quickly changed during the 18th century so that the production would take place solely in the factory causing the husband to usually be the only bread winner. To summarize the text says on page 656, “Women came to be associated with domestic duties,

During the Victorian Era, the women’s role in society was to take care of their homes and impress upon their children fine and acceptable morals that were to be used in society as they grew older.  According to an Article from victorian-era.org,  “The only duty cast upon a Victorian woman was to keep her husband happy and raise her children for which they groomed right from their childhood days.”   Women were there to make sure nurture and take care of their family. When a woman's husband died their duties were not really required and there was only so much that they could do because rights and privileges of victorian women were limited.

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

When it comes to the topic of women during the Victorian Era most of us will readily agree that they were mostly concerned with elegance, and their etiquette. Where this agreement usually ends, however, is on the question of whether women knew what was considered high fashion or if they ever cared for elegance to begin with. While some are convinced that the roles of the women were never important to begin with, others believe that the roles of women were in fact a major part in history.