Roles Of Women In The 17th Century

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Throughout the ages, women were the weaker gender. While men were the stronger and independence gender. Women were submissive, they were did what the men want as a wife or as a female in society in general. Women were forced to be excluded in many social activates such as to have property, the press, to be silent in every dialogue, educated even if they were taught to read, they were forbidden from writing. Because of that , women were write under the name of men. For example, in the 17th century, only twelve works were published by women. In literature were five works, one work was about a saints' lives and the rest of works were the mother's advice books, translation and prophecy. In our research we will talk about the role of women throughout

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