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Brabbling women : disorderly speech and the law in early Virginia /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Snyder, Terri L., 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, ©2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.