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

byKathleen M. Brown

Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs examines how gender and race developed together in colonial Virginia. Kathleen M. Brown traces the social categories imposed on English, African, and Indigenous women and men, showing how household authority, labor systems, sexuality, and law helped create both racial slavery and patriarchal power. The book reframes early Virginia through the intertwined histories of identity and domination.

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Publication date

1996-11-01

Format

Paperback

Pages

512

ISBN

9780807846230