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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) Paperback – November 25, 1996

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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.
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“Meticulously researched, carefully reasoned, and gracefully written, this book should be on the reading list of every historian.”―American Historical Review

“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

“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

“One of the most important and interesting books ever published about colonial Virginia history."―
Virginia Libraries

"This book is . . . crucial to our understanding not only of gender but of race and power in colonial Virginia.”―
Journal of Southwest Georgia History

“Should be a standard purchase for all academic libraries with holdings in U.S. history.” ―
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“Kathleen Brown has written an important book that is going to revolutionize our understanding of colonial Virginia, of the origins of slavery, and of the role of gender in the evolution of early American society. . . . An admirable combination of sophisticated conceptual design and richly textured and original data . . . that will have a major intellectual impact across the fields of American history.” ―Drew Gilpin Faust, author of Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Omohundro Institute and UNC Press (November 25, 1996)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 512 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807846236
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.7 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.12 x 1 x 9.25 inches
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Customers find the book informative and well-written. They appreciate the detailed research and interesting perspective on Colonial Virginia's hierarchy. Readers also mention it's important for men to read, as they should not trust no one.

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Customers find the book informative and well-written. They appreciate the detailed research and clear portrayal of Colonial Virginia's hierarchy. The book provides a good history lesson with interesting stories and rich details about how women lived during that time.

"...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." Read more

"Very interesting view of Colonial Virginia's hierarchy with detailed research to support the thesis of female rights and their societal position..." Read more

"A heavy book in all senses of the word. Interesting material, not necessarily always told in an interesting manner...." Read more

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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2013
    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.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2014
    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.
  • Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2018
    nice
  • Reviewed in the United States on December 4, 2015
    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.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2017
    Excellent book!
  • Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2015
    My kind of book.
  • Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2017
    This has been a very exciting journey for me to go through.

    Kathleen Brown has made a very heavy, but insightful, look into how Colonial Virginia was shaped by race, patriarchal power, and gender relations. I was really apprehensive that this book would quickly become a gender studies snore fest, but Kathleen instead creates a wonderful book that delves into the nitty-gritty of how these three elements play upon each other. Her use of how gender has influenced history has caused me to hope that other historians will start to use this lens and to see what they'll pick up from it.
  • Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2015
    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 Kindle version does not have the maps or pictures of the printed version.
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