Within her power: propertied women in colonial Virginia

Publisher's description: This is an engaging and comprehensive study of property-owning women in the colony of Tidewater, VA during the 17th & 18th centuries. It examines the social restrictions on women's behaviour and speech, opportunities and difficulties these women encountered in...

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Main Author: Sturtz, Linda L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York [u.a.] Routledge 2002
Series:The New World in the Atlantic World
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Summary:Publisher's description: This is an engaging and comprehensive study of property-owning women in the colony of Tidewater, VA during the 17th & 18th centuries. It examines the social restrictions on women's behaviour and speech, opportunities and difficulties these women encountered in the legal system, the economic and discretionary authority they enjoyed, the roles they played in the family business, their roles in the later, trans-Atlantic trading framework, and the imperial context within which these colonial women lived, making this a welcome addition to both colonial and women's history.
Physical Description:XV, 278 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:0415928559
0415928826

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