Brabbling Women : Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia.
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- 9780801469930
- 305.4/09755
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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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