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Brabbling Women : Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (197 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801469930
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Brabbling WomenDDC classification:
  • 305.4/09755
LOC classification:
  • HQ1438
Online resources:
Contents:
Brabbling Women -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Brabbling Women in Early Virginia -- 1. Women, Misrule, and Political Culture -- 2. Sexual Stories: Narratives of Consent and Coercion -- 3. Unwifely Speeches and the Authority of Husbands -- 4. Freedom, Dependency, and the Power of Women's Speech -- 5. Widows, Fictive Widows, and the Management of Households -- Conclusion: Toward the Eighteenth Century -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Terri L. Snyder demonstrates how women resisted and challenged oppressive political, legal, and cultural practices in colonial Virginia.
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Brabbling Women -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Brabbling Women in Early Virginia -- 1. Women, Misrule, and Political Culture -- 2. Sexual Stories: Narratives of Consent and Coercion -- 3. Unwifely Speeches and the Authority of Husbands -- 4. Freedom, Dependency, and the Power of Women's Speech -- 5. Widows, Fictive Widows, and the Management of Households -- Conclusion: Toward the Eighteenth Century -- Notes -- Index.

Terri L. Snyder demonstrates how women resisted and challenged oppressive political, legal, and cultural practices in colonial Virginia.

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