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

By:

Brown, Kathleen M, 1960- [Author]

Contributor(s):

Omohundro Institute of Early American History & Culture []

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: 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.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 496 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781469600505

Other title:

Gender, race, and power in colonial Virginia [Other title]

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Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

F229 .G663 1996

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Contents:

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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Awards:

American Historical Association John H. Dunning Prize for U.S. history, 1997.
Berkshire Conference First Book Prize, 1996.

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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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