Brave Eves: an Evaluation of American Women’s Marital Life in the Colonial Period

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10.2991/iccessh-18.2018.311How to use a DOI?

Keywords

America; colonial women; marital life; brave Eves

Abstract

This paper argues against a popular opinion that American women in the colonial period enjoyed a wonderful marital life by revealing the reason behind it--the scarcity of women in the new continent at that time. Then this paper proceeds to explain three main types of hardships and difficulties for the American colonial women to conquer: child delivery, absence of legal rights and witch persecution danger. After these, the paper elaborates American colonial women’s unique and irreplaceable role in family and their remarkable success outside of the family. Based on these analyses, this paper concludes that American colonial women’s marital life is not easy and the colonial women can be described as brave Eves, who, via conquering the harsh natural and social environment, have made their indispensable contribution to creating a new country in the new continent.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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