Good wives, nasty wenches, and anxious patriarchs : gender, race, and power in colonial Virginia /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brown, Kathleen M., 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill ; London : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [1996]
Series:Legal classics library (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Subjects:
1600-1775
Sex role > Virginia > History.
Women > Virginia > Social conditions.
Social classes > Virginia > History.
Rôle selon le sexe > Virginie > Histoire.
Femmes > Virginie > Conditions sociales.
Classes sociales > Virginie > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Race relations.
Sex role.
Social classes.
Women > Social conditions.
Sekseverschillen.
Rassenverhoudingen.
Virginia > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Virginia > Race relations.
Virginie > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
Virginie > Relations raciales.
Virginia.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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