Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs : Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (513 pages)
- Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series .
- Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Series .
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 Race -- 7. "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.
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Sex role-Virginia-History. Women-Virginia-Social conditions. Social classes-Virginia-History. Virginia-History-Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. Virginia-Race relations.