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Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs : Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia by Kathleen M. Brown (1996, Trade Paperback)

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Brown’s analysis extends through Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676, an important juncture in consolidating the colony’s white male public culture, and into the eighteenth century.

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PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press

ISBN-100807846236

ISBN-139780807846230

eBay Product ID (ePID)931668

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Book TitleGood Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs : Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia

Number of Pages512 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1996

TopicUnited States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Customs & Traditions

IllustratorYes

FeaturesNew Edition

GenreSocial Science, History

AuthorKathleen M. Brown

Book SeriesPublished by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight26.4 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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LCCN96-016502

Reviews[S]he has transformed even the very familiar by her original thinking and her command of recent theoretical formulations.Signs, An ambitious work, elaborate in construction and prodigious in research. . . . It could reshape profoundly our understanding of the history of colonial Virginia. . . . This big book is intriguing, provocative, and deeply unsettling.-- Journal of Southern History, This book is . . . crucial to our understanding not only of gender but of race and power in colonial Virginia.-- Journal of Southwest Georgia History|9780807846230|, "Brown has provided us with a major reinterpretation of colonial Virginia that revises the tale told by Edmund S. Morgan, Winthrop Jordan, and Rhys Isaac. In the process she has told a story of constricting avenues of informal power and authority for women without reconstructing an earlier 'golden age.' This is no small feat."-- Journal of American History, "One of the most important and interesting books ever published about colonial Virginia history."-- Virginia Libraries, One of the most important and interesting books ever published about colonial Virginia history."-- Virginia Libraries, "An ambitious work, elaborate in construction and prodigious in research. . . . It could reshape profoundly our understanding of the history of colonial Virginia. . . . This big book is intriguing, provocative, and deeply unsettling."-- Journal of Southern History, Meticulously researched, carefully reasoned, and gracefully written, this book should be on the reading list of every historian.-- American Historical Review, "Meticulously researched, carefully reasoned, and gracefully written, this book should be on the reading list of every historian."-- American Historical Review, "This book is . . . crucial to our understanding not only of gender but of race and power in colonial Virginia."-- Journal of Southwest Georgia History, Brown has provided us with a major reinterpretation of colonial Virginia that revises the tale told by Edmund S. Morgan, Winthrop Jordan, and Rhys Isaac. In the process she has told a story of constricting avenues of informal power and authority for women without reconstructing an earlier 'golden age.' This is no small feat.-- Journal of American History, [C]rucial to our understanding not only of gender but of race and power in colonial Virginia.Journal of Southwest Georgia History, An ambitious work, elaborate in construction and prodigious in research. . . . It could reshape profoundly our understanding of the history of colonial Virginia. . . . This big book is intriguing, provocative, and deeply unsettling."-- Journal of Southern History, Meticulously researched, carefully reasoned, and gracefully written, this book should be on the reading list of every historian.American Historical Review

Dewey Decimal975.5/02

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

Table Of ContentContentsAcknowledgments Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations and Notes on the Text IntroductionPart I: Gender FrontiersChapter 1. Gender and English Identity on the Eve of Colonial Settlement Chapter 2. The Anglo-Indian Gender Frontier Chapter 3. "Good Wives" and "Nasty Wenches": Gender and Social Order in a Colonial SettlementPart II: Engendering Racial DifferenceChapter 4. Engendering Racial Difference, 1640-1670 Chapter 5. Vile Rogues and Honorable Men: Nathaniel Bacon and the Dilemma of Colonial Masculinity Chapter 6. From "Foul Crimes" to "Spurious Issue": Sexual Regulation and the Social Construction of Race Chapter 7. "Born of a Free Woman": Gender and the Politics of FreedomPart III: Class and Power in the Eighteenth CenturyChapter 8. Marriage, Class Formation, and the Performance of Male Gentility Chapter 9. Tea Table Discourses and Slanderous Tongues: The Domestic Choreography of Female Identities Chapter 10. Anxious PatriarchsAfterword Notes IndexMaps1. Colonial Virginia in the Middle of the Seventeenth Century 2. The Powhatans and Their Neighbors in 1607Figures1. Pocahontas 2. Indian Woman 3. Captain John Smith 4. Powhatan Addressing His People 5. Bastardy Cases Attributed to White Servant Women by Decade, Norfolk, Lancaster, and York Counties 6. Inventory of Edward Nicken Signed by Mary Nicken 7. Westover Floor Plan, circa 1726 8. Lucy Parke Byrd 9.Virginian Luxuries Tables1. Successful Tax-Exemption Petitions, Norfolk, Lancaster, and York Counties 2. Slander Cases, Norfolk, Lancaster, and York Counties 3. Reported Runaway Servants and Slaves, 1643-1675, Norfolk, Lancaster, and York Counties 4. Punishments for Bastardy by White Female Servants, Norfolk, Lancaster, and York Counties 5. Interracial Bastardy Offenses by White Servant Women, 1660-1729, Norfolk, Lancaster, and York Counties

SynopsisKathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia. But the rise of racial slavery also transformed gender relations, including ideals of masculinity. In response to the presence of Indians, the shortage of labor, and the insecurity of social rank, Virginia's colonial government tried to reinforce its authority by regulating the labor and sexuality of English servants and by making legal distinctions between English and African women. This practice, along with making slavery hereditary through the mother, contributed to the cultural shift whereby women of African descent assumed from lower-class English women both the burden of fieldwork and the stigma of moral corruption. Brown's analysis extends through Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, an important juncture in consolidating the colony's white male public culture, and into the eighteenth century. She demonstrates that, despite elite planters' dominance, wives, children, free people of color, and enslaved men and women continued to influence the meaning of race and class in colonial Virginia., Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia. But the rise of racial slavery also transformed gender relations, including ideals of masculinity.In response to the presence of Indians, the shortage of labor, and the insecurity of social rank, Virginia's colonial government tried to reinforce its authority by regulating the labor and sexuality of English servants and by making legal distinctions between English and African women. This practice, along with making slavery hereditary through the mother, contributed to the cultural shift whereby women of African descent assumed from lower-class English women both the burden of fieldwork and the stigma of moral corruption.Brown's analysis extends through Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, an important juncture in consolidating the colony's white male public culture, and into the eighteenth century. She demonstrates that, despite elite planters' dominance, wives, children, free people of color, and enslaved men and women continued to influence the meaning of race and class in colonial Virginia., The origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender are examined in this book. The author argues that gender was both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, and assesses its role in the construction of racism in Virginia.

LC Classification NumberF229.B8783 1996