Early colonial women enjoyed much better advantages than European women. One of the most important factors was due to the scarce number of female in the colonies. Unlike most European women who always restricted by the code of domesticity and the patriarchal society, colonial women enjoy their freedom to do what they wished. They had the power over the marriage market, economic opportunities.<\/p>\n

I agree with my classmate, Kyle Kelsay<\/a> that this article explains the experience of women in Colonial America through migration, religion, creating communities and families. In each of these categories, Mary Beth Norton gave examples on how women played such significant roles.<\/p>\n

However this status of colonial women eventually decline in the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. New generations brought changes to the colonies. The South began to replace white indentured servants with African slaves which altered the racial composition of American society (601). New white immigrants of various ethnic and religious backgrounds came to America with their own definition of family norms. Most importantly, as the sex ratio approached equality, men slowly reassert their authority over the women (602).<\/p>\n

When the idea of the Republican Mother emerged, an ideal American woman was expected to be self-sacrificed, patriotic mother who raise her children to be good Christians. Such woman certainly had no place in the public world, thus women were pushed further into the home, into the Victorian cult of domesticity (618).<\/p>\n

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