WOMEN’S LIVES BEFORE THE MODERN ERA

DBQs:

Compare images and attitudes toward women in China, Europe, and the Islamic civilization in the centuries 600–1500 AD. How similar were these attitudes across these cultures?

One historian says, “The subordinate status of women in most pre-modern societies went hand in hand with various idealized or romanticized images of women.” Using these images, explain whatthis historian means and why you do or do not agree.