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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Legal classics library (Buffalo, N.Y.) | HeinOnline. UNC Press law publications. | HeinOnline. Women and the law.Publisher: Chapel Hill ; London : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 496 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469600505
  • 1469600501
Other title:
  • Gender, race, and power in colonial Virginia
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Good wives, nasty wenches, and anxious patriarchsDDC classification:
  • 975.5/02 22
LOC classification:
  • F229 .B8783 1996eb
Other classification:
  • 15.85
Online resources:
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.
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Awards:
  • American Historical Association John H. Dunning Prize for U.S. history, 1997.
  • Berkshire Conference First Book Prize, 1996.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

American Historical Association John H. Dunning Prize for U.S. history, 1997.

Berkshire Conference First Book Prize, 1996.

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