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Thanks
for your note to FEMINIST.COM--I
think that the major change
affecting women during the 17th
and 18th centuries was moving
away from an agrarian based
society--and away from sustainable
living. The production increased
and thus the production of labor
increased. This meant that people
were spending more time working--and
therefore, less time at home.
To reconcile this, it became
that mostly women began to stay
home and take care of the home,
while men worked outside of
the home. And thus began the
notion that housework was women's
work. The other thing that happened
is that in order to keep up
with the production of labor
the slave trade reached its
peak numbers. The presence of
slaves was especially scarring
for white women---since they
were often in a position of
having to tell slaves what to
do, to be their superiors.
Does that help? Good luck.
—Amy
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