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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Snyder, Terri L., 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
1700-1799
Women > Virginia > History > 18th century.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc. > Virginia > History.
Sex customs > Virginia > History > 18th century.
Femmes > Virginie > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Vie sexuelle > Virginie > Histoire > 18e siècle.
HISTORY.
United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).
LAW > Gender & the Law.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Sex customs.
Women.
Women > Legal status, laws, etc.
Virginia.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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