Good wives, nasty wenches, and anxious patriarchs : gender, race, and power in colonial Virginia /
Gender, race, and power in colonial Virginia
Kathleen M. Brown.
- Chapel Hill ; London : Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, (c)1996.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 496 pages) : illustrations, map
Includes bibliographies and index.
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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American Historical Association John H. Dunning Prize for U.S. history, 1997. Berkshire Conference First Book Prize, 1996.
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Sex role--History.--Virginia Women--Social conditions.--Virginia Social classes--History.--Virginia