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Good wives, nasty wenches, and anxious patriarchs
gender, race, and power in colonial Virginia
Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From the library of Harrison T. Meserole, 2002.