Single Women in European Past

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hostility, and this hostility eventually led legal restrictions on women’s choice of work, place of residence, free time activities, and even relations with their own families. Also Wiesner writes that such restrictions were gradually expanded to include the daughters of citizens. They were also forbidden to “have their own smoke” or “earn their own bread” (pg. 197). Wiesner is trying to show that these women who were single were treated as if they were not human beings in their society just because of society’s attitudes towards them. They especially did not have the same independence and freedom that men had in Germany. Men were always seen as superior to women.
Another thing that Wiesner writes about is the domestic service women took part in and how the society viewed them and the effects it had on domestic service women. Domestic servant was a person who worked in an employer’s household. They did things such as cleaning, caring for children, and making food, in other words ...

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