Ebook Good Wives Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs Gender Race and Power in Colonial Virginia Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early and the University of North Carolina Press Kathleen M Brown Books
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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.
Ebook Good Wives Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs Gender Race and Power in Colonial Virginia Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early and the University of North Carolina Press Kathleen M Brown Books
"Great stories, such rich details, well written. It's a thick book that will take some time to get through, but it's a fun journey."
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Good Wives Nasty Wenches and Anxious Patriarchs Gender Race and Power in Colonial Virginia Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early and the University of North Carolina Press Kathleen M Brown Books Reviews
- Well written, thoroughly researched and very informative; however, I was expecting the book to be different. I don't know how to explain my expectations.l I think I was looking for a less detailed, more entertaining read. The title is what drew me to the book!
- nice
- Very interesting view of Colonial Virginia's hierarchy with detailed research to support the thesis of female rights and their societal position relative to men and slaves. Well written. Recommend to anyone interested in early American history, daily life in colonial Virginia and the legacy of slavery in the US.
- A heavy book in all senses of the word. Interesting material, not necessarily always told in an interesting manner. A good, but again not compellingly told, overview of women's rights or non-rights in the 18th C. But be sure to feel strong when reading it! It's VERY heavy, and the version does not have the maps or pictures of the printed version.
- Excellent book!
- This was one of the text books assigned to my senior level Colonial America class. I enjoyed reading this text and discussing it in class every week. The amount of information that it covered was amazing and gave a very clear picture of how women lived during a very important time in US history.
- Great stories, such rich details, well written. It's a thick book that will take some time to get through, but it's a fun journey.
- This book is very important for men to read, because these so not trust no one if you can not trust your wife who can you trust then.
