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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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Main Author: Brown, Kathleen M., 1960- (Author)
Corporate Author: Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press, [1996]
Subjects and Genres:
1600-1775
Sex role > Virginia > History.
Women > Virginia > Social conditions.
Social classes > Virginia > History.
Rôle selon le sexe > Virginie > Histoire.
Femmes > Virginie > Conditions sociales.
Classes sociales > Virginie > Histoire.
15.85 history of America.
Race relations
Sex role
Social classes
Women > Social conditions
Sekseverschillen.
Rassenverhoudingen.
Gender roles
Women > United States > Social conditions.
Slavery > Virginia > History.
Racism > Virginia > History.
Virginia > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Virginia.
Virginia > Race relations.
Virginie > Histoire > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale)
Virginie > Relations raciales.
Virginia
Virginia > History > Colonial Period, 1600-1775.
Virginia > Race relations > History.
History
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Call Number: F229 .B8783 1996
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