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.