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->
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| Titolo: |
Good wives, nasty wenches, and anxious patriarchs : gender, race, and power in colonial Virginia / / Kathleen M. Brown
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| 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 |
| ISBN: | 0-8078-3829-2 |
| 1-4696-0050-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464307103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia