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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2014 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 2 maps, 6 halftones |
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