Ch 5 Documents

The Chinese women were limited importance in chinese society. This women wrote instructions for women. One of these instructions was humility, and says "Let a women retire late to bed, but rise early to duties; let her nor dread task by day or by night."By saying this she means that women's have to do everything even though they might say up late doing there duties. In An Alternative to Patriarchy in India, women were never to be independent, and they could not have more authority than ordinary life. Women began to write poems where they talked about their religious experience. In the Roman Women in Protest talks about the Roman authorities passed the Oppian laws were women could not use luxury goods. Overall these documents talked about women's not been equal as men. They were inferior and did not have rights they were seen mostly like house wires that had to take care of the kids and their home.