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Within Her Power : Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia

Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

Online Ressource (295 pages)

Englisch

Print version record

Erscheint auch als: Sturtz, Linda : Within Her Power : Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia. - Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, ©2013 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-135-30196-5 ; 1-135-30196-4

978-0-415-92882-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 862613261 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

HQ1438.V5

305.409755 ; 305.4/09755     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: SOC031000 ; bisacsh: SOC020000 ; bisacsh: SOC 031000 ; bisacsh: SOC 020000

LOC-SH: Women -- History -- 17th century -- Virginia ; Women -- History -- 18th century -- Virginia ; Women landowners -- History -- Virginia ; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc -- History -- Virginia ; Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Virginia ; Women -- Virginia -- History -- 18th century ; Women landowners -- Virginia -- History ; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc -- Virginia -- History ; Women -- Virginia -- History -- 17th century ; Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

Electronic books / History ; Virginia ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies ; Women ; Women landowners ; Women ; Legal status, laws, etc ; History

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