Anne Hutchinson and her Feminist Consciousness

Anne Hutchinson,an English middle-class woman,raised the Puritan reform in the course of her Puritan activities in Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1630s.Anne's religious ideology and activities show clearly her feminist consciousness which advocates women's right of participating in Church and secular affairs and enjoying education and equality between different sexes.Though her feminist consciousness was immature,it intensely attracted women's attention and gained the support from certain men,shaking the puritanical society in Massachusetts Bay Colony.Finally,Anne Hutchinson was brought to trial before the Great Court of Massachusetts and the Church Council,and was banished from Boston.Anne's feminist consciousness in the form of Church reform was very influential as the source of early American feminist ideology,and Anne herself is also known as the forerunner of early American feminism.