Brabbling Women : : Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia / / Terri L. Snyder.
Brabbling Women takes its title from a 1662 law enacted by Virginia's burgesses, which was intended to offer relief to the "poore husbands" forced into defamation suits because their "brabling" wives had slandered or scandalized their neighbors. To quell such episodes of fem...
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Snyder, Terri L., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Brabbling Women : Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia / Terri L. Snyder. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (200 p.) : 2 maps, 6 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Brabbling Women in Early Virginia -- 1. Women, Misrule, and Political Culture -- 2. Sexual Stories: Narratives of Consent and Coercion -- 3. Unwifely Speeches and the Authority of Husbands -- 4. Freedom, Dependency, and the Power of Women's Speech -- 5. Widows, Fictive Widows, and the Management of Households -- Conclusion: Toward the Eighteenth Century -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Brabbling Women takes its title from a 1662 law enacted by Virginia's burgesses, which was intended to offer relief to the "poore husbands" forced into defamation suits because their "brabling" wives had slandered or scandalized their neighbors. To quell such episodes of female misrule, lawmakers decreed that husbands could choose either to pay damages or to have their wives publicly ducked.But there was more at stake here. By examining women's use of language, Terri L. Snyder demonstrates how women resisted and challenged oppressive political, legal, and cultural practices in colonial Virginia. Contending that women's voices are heard most clearly during episodes of crisis, Snyder focuses on disorderly speech to illustrate women's complex relationships to law and authority in the seventeenth century.Ordinary women, Snyder finds, employed a variety of strategies to prevail in domestic crises over sexual coercion and adultery, conflicts over women's status as servants or slaves, and threats to women's authority as independent household governors. Some women entered the political forum, openly participating as rebels or loyalists; others sought legal redress for their complaints. Wives protested the confines of marriage; unfree women spoke against masters and servitude. By the force of their words, all strove to thwart political leaders and local officials, as well as the power of husbands, masters, and neighbors. The tactics colonial women used, and the successes they met, reflect the struggles for empowerment taking place in defiance of the inequalities of the colonial period. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Sex customs Virginia History 18th century. Women Legal status, laws, etc Virginia History. Women Virginia History 18th century. Early American & Colonial History. Gender Studies. U.S. History. HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775). bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 9783110536157 print 9780801440526 https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801469930 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780801469930 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780801469930/original |
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