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Vijay Gottipaty
4.2 Zinn Reading Quiz
1. Societies that have private property differ from communal living societies in their
treatment of women in many ways. Societies that have private property have women take
care of the children and the household. Communal living societies treat women in
somewhat similar, but also different ways. These societies have women take care of the
children, but also do chores, keep up with the houses, and cook.
2. Women were treated differently on the frontier than cities. Women on the frontier had
more rights, they weren’t just people who looked after the house and children. They
helped their husbands with various activities and even tended the farms. Women in the
cities took care of the households, children, and chores.
3. Zinn uses the case of Ann Hutchinson to support his case that women were not treated as
equals and that they should be. Ann Hutchinson was a public speaker where she lived and
because of this she was mistreated and even exiled. Zinn uses this to show how women
were not treated as equals.