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In 18thcentury America the "idealized" Colonial women were tough, big, muscular, strong and very fertile. This was a period of time in the history of the country in which size and strength were important assets for a woman to possess, for her own surviva as well as her desirability as a wife, mother and worker of the land. Her fertility was important because the more children she could produce, the more free labor or helpers the family would have to work the land.
The ideal body i of American women in the 18th century.