Did women have a role in the Seventeenth- Century Politics?
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Did women have a role in the Seventeenth- Century Politics? This assignment will be looking into what if any, did women do in the Seventeenth Century in the way of politics and political affairs. As with this time, men were the dominant being, the head of the house and women just being Second class citizens. To a small degree women did dabble in politics it would have been classed as minimal as they were seen inferior to men. But according to Weigall in 1642 women were coming to play a remarkably vigorous part in politics too.1 In her own life T.E. states the opposite view and writes that women have no voice in Parliament, they ...have nothing to do in constituting laws, or consenting to them, or interpreting of laws or in hearing them interpreted at lectures, lets or charges, and yet they stand tied to men's establishments, little or...

