I really enjoyed this week’s readings. Colonial women had a different life than I expected, especially the rights granted to them as widows. Women still had traditional roles as mothers and homemaker, and the patriarchal society still ruled. Yet as married women, the husbands had all the control and ownership, but as widows, the women held their own power. I also thought it was interesting that many women would give up their rights and re-marry multiple times. Life was just more affordable in a partnership, especially in rural areas were the land had to be worked to live. Religion also affected women’s life, Puritans and Quakers took different approaches and expected their women to behave differently. Just being Quaker allowed a woman
