In my mind the Renaissance era was the greatest era. This era had a huge impact on our life styles and beliefs today. Some of the things adopted from the Renaissance era was Culture, Society, and Religion. But in order to fully understand the concept of the gender roles of the men and women of the time. We must first understand how the men and women of that time were viewed. Throughout history there is a lot of ways men and women were different. But only a few were the biggest setback for women.…
Tokugawa era Japan was a very different period than those before it, instead of proving loyalty and honor on the battlefield it was drawn from more diplomatic situations. The Tokugawa period brought with it an era of lasting peace for nearly 250 years, and with it came different ways in which to occupy ones self. Many things in society changed including, the warring ways of the samurai where honor was drawn from the strength and skill turned into peaceful times when martial skill was practiced to maintain. However, besides the peaceful times many things remained the same about the Japanese social structure. Men and women still were very aware of honorable behavior, which held the basis for social culture. Although some similarities between the two were apparent, the more interesting seem to be the ways in which women were observed to display honorable behavior. The seemingly confined life of a women was very basic yet very strict in conduct. While men presented the strength of the household outside women held up the integrity of the house from within.…
Over all, women of the Middle Ages had no major roles in society. They lived to serve men and did so willingly. They had no real power, unless they were magical or non-human. This can be seen in Beowulf, as Grendel’s mother is a demon. Women were commonly known as seducing, and displaying the characteristics of a siren, which can be derived from all of the texts. Women of higher class were treated better, and were decorated in fine jewelry and clothing. Although women had no major parts in society, they were still respected and seen as…
There were many continuities for women between 600-1450 such as they were still subordinate to men and were not allowed to be educated but the changes were more significant like their right to divorce was brought upon in this time period along with their ability to gain power through marriage.…
Samurai are important because of bravery in sacrifice and honor within the Japanese culture.The Samurai lived a simple life under the rule of the “Daimyo”. The Samurai pledge their allegiance to the leader of his social level. or They were taught, trained, and disciplined in the “Way of the samurai”; called Bushido (boo-shi-do). Women made up a good portion of warriors and sometimes even fought beside the men. Once a Samurai has lost his honor he had option to regain it by killing themselves as a form of sacrifice called Seppuku, but as for the women they stabbed…
In the period from about 1300 to 1600, middle and working class woman typically married and over sought the domestic responsibilities of the home. However, they also frequently worked outside the home. The women of the middle/working class performed a wide variety of jobs including: the construction of ships’ sails, midwives, maids, cooks, laundresses, and household servants. Furthermore, women were heavily involved in the Florentine textile industry, weaving cloth and reeling and winding silk. Women ran the ferry service across the Rhone River at Lyons as well as assisted their father and husbands in agricultural tasks. Widowed women would even run their husbands’ establishments. While women of the middle and working classes experienced the benefits of Renaissance humanism, women of the upper class status saw a decline in status. When considering the types of jobs they performed, their access to property and political power, and their role in shaping the outlook of their society, the women of the Renaissance ruling classes typically had less power than women of the feudal age. As mentioned previously, well-to-do girls generally receive an education similar to that of the boys. However, because men held the view that woman’s attention should be focused on the domestic affairs of family life, the women of the time could not use their education to its fullest. This attitude of women’s role being…
Their main roles in the household included: raising patriotic children, cleaning, cooking, and obeying their husband's or father's orders. Women had no control over their lives and duties. Their lives were dictated by the rule of men around them. In other words, women had almost no rights. At the time, they didn’t have the right to vote or patriciate in juries. Their opinions and feelings were not incorporated in the laws and regulations of the nation. Women's rights were so limited that many didn't even go outside their own homes without their husband. Life and the world outside their home was unknown to women. On the other hand, men worked in the…
Men were the workers, bread winners, property owners, decision makers, and kings in their families and in society. Everyone worked beneath them. They went out to work each day and expected that when they returned, the women within their families would provide the proper necessities of life: food, a clean house, and take care of the children. A woman on the other hand was expected to provide these necessities and often she also provided work outside the home, she may have even work alongside her husband too. When she finished that job, it was expected that she would attend to her home duties, these included, providing care for her husband and family and never to complain.…
The households of today are painted by the 20th-century landscape. Women experienced limitations during that time. They were allowed to go to some places while they could not go to others. They were not permitted to hold some jobs. The role of a woman was to perform few employment opportunities such as a nursing, teaching, and being a social worker or clerical worker. Catholic women were advantageous since they could become a nun or join a convent. Many thought that a life of…
woman how to dress, please her husband, raise her children, and cook her food” . There were also occasional cases where women were advised not to get a job, however, usually the job was in domestic service – like housekeeper, maid, dressmaker, babysitter, waitress, cook etc.…
The average woman during the Renaissance was one who lived at home and essentially ran the household. While women still did work during this period, they never ran their own business or went seeking for jobs outside of the home. The typical working woman during the Renaissance worked at home for their husband’s business or otherwise typically did house work. Women had a tremendous and also very demanding at home role, taking care of an array of tasks such as cooking, trading, and even being a teacher. Women had to prepare three meals a day for their families, while still taking care of children at home. Generally, poorer children did not leave home and would receive a slight education, if it was even possible, from their mothers and then go on the work at home. Women from agricultural families often had the responsibility of taking excess yields to the market to be traded. Poorer women during the Renaissance needed to be very well rounded and had to take care of a variety of everyday tasks.…
The functions of women at that time were to raise children, domestic affairs, and to ensure the fulfillment and teaching of moral values to their offspring. The woman was responsible for maintaining the honor of her family. The women were subject to respect to their husband, and for that the education of the girls was entrusted to nuns so that she was submissive before what it demanded its…
In japanese culture gender roles showed that women were treated similar to men, some women evan ruled as queens, their status as well was very similar to men's. Amaterasu, the sun goddess, was portrayed as the epitome of perfection in their culture exemplifying intelligence, beauty, fertility, and purity. Amaterasu feminine qualities were embraced and admired as well. Women were also allowed to rule, and were encouraged to because of the confidence in them to bring peace and regulation to the country (Silva-Grondin, 2010). Women in japanese culture were treated somewhat equal to men with their positions, such as being queens. They also looked up to some of the female deities such as Amaterasu and many more. The reason as to why women…
Women just needed the chance to prove it. Women were expected to be housewives and searching for jobs was not the easiest thing to do during this time. The expectation to take care of the kids and prepare meals and keep the house clean was very prominent. Although, the women understood that work…
While women were at home they had many important tasks to do in order to keep everything in line. That included taking care of the farm and all the farm animals. They had to feed them, water them, and play with them and every other thing that you have to do to keep animals alive. Women also had to take care of all the children and also their husbands and house too. Their many daily chores included having to make breakfast, lunch, dinner, cleaning the house, laundry, etc.…