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WOMEN IN THE 17 TH CENTURY MADAME DE SAINT Pal2pal.com CATHERINE THE GREAT Pal2pal.com MARESHA KIDD

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MARESHA KIDD

W O M E N I N T H E 1 7 T H C E N T U RY

MADAME DE SAINTPal2pal.com

CATHERINE THE GREATPal2pal.com

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STRONG

• Women of the 17th Century were very

interesting .

• Some women in the 17th Century were strong minded and

independent

• . During this time women would dress

and portray their self as men just so they

can fight in war.

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QUIET

• Unmarried virgins and wives were to

maintain silence in the public and give

unstinting obedience to father and husband,

though widows had some scope for

making their own decisions and

managing their affairs. (Taylor 1708)

cfa.ilstu.edu

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REVENGE

•Women took up for their families as well as the man did. When someone hurt them or their family , the woman of the house seek REVENGE.

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HARD WORKERS• Women worked just like

he man did but even harder.

• They took care of the children, milked the

cows, cook dinner ,and worked on the farm.

Yahoo.com

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Strong and confident women that played major roles like Lady of Merica

led troops against the Vikings and Olga of

Russia.((Salzman 1562)

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LAZY MEN

Most men could not run a farm or a business without their wife’s help.(Stern 1698).

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WARRIORS

There are depictions of Hittite women

warriors from 1300 BC (Greer 1685).

There was a female chariot fighter

competing against men (Kenyon 1776)Yahoo.com

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• Aristocratic ladies who led troops in seige and batle included Alrude

Countess of Bertinoro.(Bijvoet 1780)

• Madame de Saint Baslemont de Neuville as well as two unamed

aristocratic sisters fought duels.(Stern

1676)Labourstart.org

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LEADERS

Lady Agnes Randolph (1300-1369)

, known as Black Agnes fought for de Bruce.

(Graham 1550).

Queen of Edward III , led twelve thousand soldiers

against the invading Scots in 1346 and captured their

king , David Bruce (Graham 1554)

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PROTECTING THEIR HOME

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WOMEN WANTED THEIR REVENGE

Mademoiselle Leverrier fouht a

duel with the naval officer, Duprihez ,

who jilted her (Baldick 1777)

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WE WANTED “REAL” JOBS

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THIS IS NOW AND FOREVER!!!

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WE HAD TO MULTITASK..WHY..? BECAUSE MEN ARE

LAZY

;KWomen were also tailoresses, milliners , dyers , shoemakers, and embroiderers, (Rensselaer 1772). They were also washerwomen . Worked in food preparation such as brewers bakers and confectioners and TOOK CRE OF THE CHLDREN/HUSBAND

Youoffendmeyouoffendmyfamily.com

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WOMEN IN THE 17TH CENTURY WAS STRONG AND THEY STOOD UP FOR THEM SELVES THEY WASN’TJUST HOUSEWIFES!!!

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WOMEN ARE SMART!!!

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Their lives revolved around their family if you cross their family you crossed them. They cleaned cooked brewed beer , washed and help the men work on farms(Baldick 1777)Sodahead.com

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Women was seen as a social outcast (Graham 1750). We couldn’t work certain jobs and the “men though we wasn’t good enough to fight in war.. We had to wear what they THOUGHT we should put on.

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In 1795 the French revolutionary governement ordered French women to return to their homes and prohibited them from attending political meetings, or gathering in groups of more than five women (Taylor 1766).

Ncfm.org

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Women took part in the Crusades in the armies of the Emperor Conrad and William Count of Poitiers in spite of a papal bull forbidding them to do so.

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In 1545 , Lillard led the Scots at the battle of Ancrum (Graham 1556).

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Mademoiselle La Maupin, an actress who dies in 1707 , was trained in swordfightiing by her . She issued more than one challenge to duel , and was pardoned by king Louis XIV after killing several men in one evening ball (Baldick 1775)

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Jemima Wmer took her deceased husbands place in the ranks during an American army expedition into Canada led by General Richard Montogomery and Colonel Benedict Arnold (Baldick 1776)

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EDUCATED

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WORK CITED• Germaine Greer- “Kissing of the Rod New York” : Frariar

Straus Giroux,1988

• Elspeth Graham –” Her Own Life” Psychology Press ,1989

• Robert Baldick – “The Duel” Indiana University : Chapman & Hall ,1996

• Paul Salzman –”Early Modern Women’s Writing”-Oxford , Oxford University ,2008

• Jeremy Taylor- “ The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living” London , Pickering 1840