Brown, Kathleen M.

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

Acknowledgments vii Illustrations and Tables xiii Abbreviations and Notes on the Text xv Introduction 1(12) PART I. GENDER FRONTIERS Gender and English Identity on the Eve of Colonial Settlement 13(29) The Anglo-Indian Gender Frontier 42(33) ``Good Wives'' and ``Nasty Wenches'': Gender and Social Order in a Colonial Settlement 75(32) PART II. ENGENDERING RACIAL DIFFERENCE Engendering Racial Difference, 1640-1670 107(30) Vile Rogues and Honorable Men: Nathaniel Bacon and the Dilemma of Colonial Masculinity 137(50) From ``Foul Crimes'' to ``Spurious Issue'': Sexual Regulation and the Social Construction of Race 187(25) ``Born of a Free Woman'': Gender and the Politics of Freedom 212(35) PART III. CLASS AND POWER IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Marriage, Class Formation, and the Performance of Male Gentility 247(36) Tea Table Discourses and Slandeous Tongues: The Domestic Choreography of Female Identities 283(36) Anxious Partiarchs 319(48) Afterword 367(8) Notes 375(98) Index 473