Martha Ballard- a Midwives Tale

This Womans Work Before I watched A Midwifes relation, a movie created from the diary found by medallion Ulrich chronicling the smell of a woman named Martha Ballard, I thought the women in these times were just housewives and nothing else. I pictured them doing the clean and the cooking for their husbands and not being very smart because of the neglect of education or them being un open to work. My view on the subject changed however when I watched this specific womans life and her work. To know that there was a woman such as Martha back in those solar days is very interesting to me because I especially did not think there were women who were as unfearing and independent as she was. The lives of women in general, not just in Marthas case, were busy and at some(prenominal)times hard during these times. They had to do an arrest down of things from keeping the house under control and raising sometimes several children to working on a farm and spinning. Sometimes, some women would even work to make a second sustentation for the family, as in Martha?s case. And even though the women were able to work, they still did not hold as much position as men did, which is still evident today.

And if the women were recognized as much as they should be Im sure we wouldnt pauperisation a completely different subject for Womens History because they would regale it in the regular history classes, instead of the subject consisting of 99.9% males. Marthas day was a pretty long one(a) and consisted of many jobs to do, anything from cleaning the house to delivering a baby. The fact that she never lost a mother during any of the childbirths is astonishing in itself since it was the number one cause of death in women. Among those jobs she also spun, raised her children, worked on her farm, and treated illnesses, coming up with her own remedies. For example when Parthenia was reproduce and she had her drink the last milk from the cow in hopes of her get better which unfortunately she wasnt able to make her get... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay

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