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Gender roles in Colonial America Hartman 1 During the late seventeenth & early eighteenth century in Colonial & English America , the roles men expected of women followed a strict guideline. Those guidelines kept women in certain boundaries. Women had no defined legal identity as an individual. Women grew to resent being repressed socially and legally with the constant law changes restricting the liberties permitted to their Gender . Their only outlet was gossip, allowing them to have a degree of control over their own lives and the lives of others.

Gender roles in Colonial America Hartman 3 gender is a social construction; at issue are not just personal identities of individuals but the larger social order. It seemed a threat to the social order if any changes were to happen, especially in the roles concerning gender.

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