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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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Autore: Brown Kathleen M. <1960-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Good wives, nasty wenches, and anxious patriarchs : gender, race, and power in colonial Virginia / / Kathleen M. Brown Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: 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
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (513 p.)
Disciplina: 975.5/02
Soggetto topico: Sex role - Virginia - History
Women - Virginia - Social conditions
Social classes - Virginia - History
Soggetto geografico: Virginia History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Virginia Race relations
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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
Titolo autorizzato: Good wives, nasty wenches, and anxious patriarchs  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8078-3829-2
1-4696-0050-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910464307103321
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Serie: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia