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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788862203321

Autore

Brown Kathleen M. <1960->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] ; ; London, [England] : , : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, , 1996

©1996

ISBN

979-88-908646-1-1

0-8078-3829-2

1-4696-0050-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (513 p.)

Collana

Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia

Disciplina

975.5/02

Soggetti

Sex role - Virginia - History

Women - Virginia - Social conditions

Social classes - Virginia - History

Virginia History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Virginia Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Illustrations and Tables; Abbreviations and Notes on the Text; Introduction; PART I. GENDER FRONTIERS; 1. Gender and English Identity on the Eve of Colonial Settlement; 2. The Anglo-Indian Gender Frontier; 3. ""Good Wives"" and ""Nasty Wenches"": Gender and Social Order in a Colonial Settlement; PART II. ENGENDERING RACIAL DIFFERENCE; 4. Engendering Racial Difference, 1640-1670; 5. Vile Rogues and Honorable Men: Nathaniel Bacon and the Dilemma of Colonial Masculinity

6. From ""Foul Crimes"" to ""Spurious Issue"": Sexual Regulation and the Social Construction of Race7. ""Born of a Free Woman"": Gender and the Politics of Freedom; PART III. CLASS AND POWER IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; 8. Marriage, Class Formation, and the Performance of Male Gentility; 9. Tea Table Discourses and Slanderous Tongues: The



Domestic Choreography of Female Identities; 10. Anxious Patriarchs; Afterword; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y