Title Good wives, nasty wenches, and anxious patriarchs : gender, race, and power in colonial Virginia / Kathleen M. Brown

Published Chapel Hill ; London : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [1996] ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 496 pages) : illustrations, map Series Legal classics library (Buffalo, N.Y.) Contents Gender and English identity on the eve of colonial settlement -- The Anglo-Indian gender frontier -- "Good wives" and "nasty wenches": gender and the social order in a colonial settlement -- Engendering racial difference, 1640-1670 -- Vile rogues and honorable men: Nathaniel Bacon and the dilemma of colonial masculinity -- From "foul crimes" to "spurious issue": sexual regulation and the social construction of race -- "Born of a free woman": gender and the politics of freedom -- Marriage, class formation, and the performance of male gentility -- Tea table discourses and slanderous tongues: the domestic choreography of female identities -- Anxious patriarchs Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL American Historical Association John H. Dunning Prize for U.S. history, 1997 Berkshire Conference First Book Prize, 1996 Print version record; online resource viewed March 7, 2017 digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Sex role -- Virginia -- History Women -- Virginia -- Social conditions Social classes -- Virginia -- History HISTORY -- United States -- Colonial Period (1600-1775) HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) Race relations Sex role Social classes Women -- Social conditions Sekseverschillen. Rassenverhoudingen. SUBJECT Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85143765 Virginia -- Race relations Subject Virginia Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture, issuing body. ISBN 9781469600505 1469600501

Other Titles Gender, race, and power in colonial Virginia

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