Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia
By Kathleen M. Brown
512 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 10 halftones, 2 maps, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-4623-0
Published: November 1996 -
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8078-3829-7
Published: December 2012
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
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Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Awards & distinctions
1997 John H. Dunning Prize in United States History, American Historical Association
Honorable Mention, 1996 Berkshire Conference Book Prize
About the Author
Kathleen M. Brown is associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Reviews
"This book is . . . crucial to our understanding not only of gender but of race and power in colonial Virginia.”--Journal of Southwest Georgia History
“Meticulously researched, carefully reasoned, and gracefully written, this book should be on the reading list of every historian.”--American Historical Review
"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
"Should be a standard purchase for all academic libraries with holdings in U.S. history."--Choice
"Kathleen Brown's magnificent book, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs, places gender at the center of early Virginia history for the first time. Her interpretations are persuasive because they are informed by judicious use of feminist theories and by an insistence that early Virginia was a changing tri-racial society."--Allan Kulikoff, Northern Illinois University