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Good wives, nasty wenches, and anxious patriarchs : gender, race, and power in colonial Virginia /
Based on the perspective of gender, this compelling study examines the origins of racism and slavery in colonial Virginia from 1676 to the eighteenth century. According to Brown, gender is both a basic social relationship and a model for social hierarchies and it therefore helped determine the const...
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Chapel Hill :
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press,
[1996]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.