TY  - BOOK
AU  - Snyder,Terri L.
TI  - Brabbling women: disorderly speech and the law in early Virginia 
SN  - 9780801469930
AV  - HQ1438.V5 S68 2003eb
U1  - 305.4/09755 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Ithaca, N.Y.
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Virginia
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Legal status, laws, etc
KW  - Sex customs
KW  - Femmes
KW  - Virginie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 18e siècle
KW  - Vie sexuelle
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - bisac
KW  - United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
KW  - LAW
KW  - Gender & the Law
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-178) and index; Introduction: Brabbling Women in Early Virginia -- 1. Women, Misrule, and Political Culture -- 2. Sexual Stories: Narratives of Consent and Coercion -- 3. Unwifely Speeches and the Authority of Husbands -- 4. Freedom, Dependency, and the Power of Women's Speech -- 5. Windows, Fictive Widows, and the Management of Households -- Conclusion: Toward the Eighteenth Century
N2  - "Brabbling Women takes its title from a 1662 law enacted by Virginia's burgesses, which was intended to offer relief to the "poore husbands" forced into defamation suits because their "brabling" wives had slandered or scandalized their neighbors. To quell such episodes of female misrule, lawmakers decreed that husbands could choose either to pay damages or to have their wives publicly ducked." "But there was more at stake here. By examining women's use of language, Terri L. Snyder demonstrates how women resisted and challenged oppressive political, legal, and cultural practices in colonial Virginia. Contending that women's voices are heard most clearly during episodes of crisis, Snyder focuses on disorderly speech to illustrate women's complex relationships to law and authority in the seventeenth century."--Jacket
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