Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs : Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia /
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press,
[1996]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.