18th Century Gender Roles in Aphra Behn’s The Rover

18th Century Gender Roles in Aphra Behn’s The Rover

Outline

During the eighteenth century, women’s roles in society were categorized as domestic. The roles of women were strictly defined in areas such as “work, family, and society according to ideas of what is appropriate for the sex” (Easton 389). These roles gave women fewer career choices, loveless marriages with few rights and many, many domestic duties (Hawthorne et al. 34). Many women writers, who lived during the 18th century, wrote about the experiences that women were faced with during that time. Chief among those voices was Aphra Behn, who attempted to…