ROLE OF WOMEN IN PURTIAN SOCIETY

Alyssa

Alex

Cesar

Period:5

SOAPS TONE

• Speaker-Alyssa,Alex,Cesar• Occasion- I was assigned this assignment

on the Roles of Women in Puritan Society• Audience-Mrs.Petterson Henry and class• Purpose- to give information about the

roles of women in Puritan Society• Subject- Roles of Women in Puritan

Society• Tone-informational

ROLES OF A PURITAN WIFE

• The first being that women were considered to be “the weaker vessel in both body and mind”• Husbands shouldn’t

expect much from their wife. • “the Husband is ever to

be esteem’d the Superior, the Head, and to be reverenc’d and obey’d as such.”

ROLES OF A PURITAN MOTHER

• Women had direct authority of the children• the mother taught her

children religious piety, manners, discipline, and affection. • Most women lost half of

their children in infancy, and twenty percent of women died in child birth.

WOMEN'S DUTIES

•Childbearing and mothering•Food and Clothing was principal duties.•Women created a trading network for food.

• http://www3.gettysburg.edu/~tshannon/hist106web/site15/test2.htm

• https://www.google.com/search?q=puritan+mothers&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=hpJXUuaIAufziQLaioGgDg&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1366&bih=596&dpr=1#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=G8q2_mplOn78LM%3A%3BvRBqiFNQ6hFv2M%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252F3.bp.blogspot.com%252F-HEMfobkpXng%252FUYlf23X_KTI%252FAAAAAAAAHVo%252FgozPTDNxkeA%252Fs1600%252Fchristian%252Bmothers.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.westendherald.com%252F2013%252F05%252Fpuritan-praise-for-christian-mothers.html%3B263%3B412