Renaissance Women Research Paper

During and before the Renaissance, women were denied all political rights and considered legally submissive to their husbands. Women of different classes were expected to perform the duties of a housewife. Women who were poor worked in the field with their husbands and ran the home. The wives of middle class shop women often helped run their husbands' businesses also. Even women of the highest class, attend by servants, usually engaged in the household tasks of, sewing, cooking, and entertaining surrounded by others. Women who did not marry were not permitted to live independently. Instead, they lived in the households of their male,
In Oceania before 1980, there was a sculpted wood with paint now at the metropolitan museum of art in New York. The wooden sculpture demonstrates a female that symbols fertility and protects the men's house. In Oceania, the roles of women in artistic production are only restricted to weaving, barkcloth and pottery. Women do not work in places that have to do with wood, stone, bone, or ivory. The sculpture also shows that women have the natural power to create and control life. It celebrates the women procreative powers to have a baby. It shows that women life’s matter and is not ignored. The pain women go though giving birth to their child is unbearable. They …show more content…
Elizabeth was in her 20s when she posed for the portrait. Elizabeth’s father Henry was one of the most combative and authoritarian monarchs in European history. He remarried over and over again. He divorced his first wife because she did not give him a son and only a daughter. The second wife which is Elizabeth mother could not produce a son and was sentenced to death by suspicions of adultery ordered by the king. The third wife had given birth to a son but died shortly after giving birth. Henry had six wives in