Women's Roles In The Renaissance

When it came to asking the question, Did women have lives in the Renaissance? I think many are curious to know, what roles women had, and how their lives may have changed. Women of the Renaissance were denied every political right that was available, Men had political right, but unfortunately women were looked at as the housewife Women were defined in society by which class they were for example, upper class society or peasant class, this has to do with economic reasons, if a woman was from a peasant class she had more freedom. Women in an upper class society, their lives were under more strict control, if a woman did not become married she would not be allowed to live independently. No woman by any means in either class could live alone if marriage did not come their way, she was expected to become a nun, or join a convent. Once women did become married she was expected to take on the role of taking care of children, the home, and education was important. Now when it came to the peasant wife the role that was expected of them turned out to be a bit different. She not only had the role of taking care of the

children, home and everything that had to do with that home, she also had to work for her husband to help run any business they may have.
Women did go on to learn to read as well as write but some of their skills were somewhat restricted. A woman named Alessandra Macinghi-Strozzi (1407-1471) used her writing skills to construct letters to her sons in exile. These letters were in effort to hopefully find spouses for her children, as well as to convince the government to end their restrictions and banishment's. Teaching women to read and write during the Renaissance may have been the ammunition they needed to set forth a bit of leverage to be