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They were supposed to be viewed as virtuous woman. Their main gaols in life was to be the perfect house wife and please God. Sometimes woman were seen as tools of the devil because of how woman are beautiful and tempting. They lived very st...
they wanted to cover their hair to show that they were married and to keep men from looking at their hair. they covered their bodies with boring, modest clothes to not attract men and they didnt want their hair styles to be different from e...
Its women, especially married women, were subject to the property rights and civil rights of women in England. When a woman married, her legal status became that of feme covert, meaning that the wife was covered by the civil identity of her...
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Marilyn Yalom gave a nice picture of Puritan dissenter Anne Hutchinson (135-136). Also on 135 is a description of how women could and often did initiate divorces in New England. Women were, as women usually always are, very busy and taking ...
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･ 1. Provide a spiritual heaven within the home. ･ 2. Give birth to children. ･ 3. Act as midwives for other women in labor. ･ 4. Teach children about the Bible and their reading and writing in the home. ･ 5. Provide nursing and medica...
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Ceremonial Killings were a Puritan thing but if you study carefully the new Puritan's that moved to Massachusetts looking for religious freedom often did use capital punishment such as hangings and stone pressure (victim is tied to the grou...
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Probably b/c of 1 Corinthians14:34 and 35. As in all the congregations of the saints, women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the Law says. If they want to inquire about somet...
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I'm not certain that the Bible DID encourage the higher education of women. But assuming it did the only real education Puritan education were generally exposed to was in the medical or teaching profession. Midwifery--the practice of helpin...
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There are different groups of women in the Puritan community. The older women presented at the first scaffold scene are harsh judges of Hester's sin. Not only are the unhappy with the punishement she received, they were equally unhappy wi...
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The jobs that *any* colonial era woman had were centered around her home and family. Women in Europe had it a bit easier, as they were able to shop in the local towns on market days for foods they were unable to grow. However, when people e...
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