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Brown Kathleen M. <1960-> |
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Good wives, nasty wenches, and anxious patriarchs : gender, race, and power in colonial Virginia / / Kathleen M. Brown |
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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 |
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©1996 |
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979-88-908646-1-1 |
0-8078-3829-2 |
1-4696-0050-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (513 p.) |
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Collana |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Sex role - Virginia - History |
Women - Virginia - Social conditions |
Social classes - Virginia - History |
Virginia History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 |
Virginia Race relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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