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Within Her Power: Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia

Within Her Power: Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia

Sturtz, Linda

Paperback

Series: New World in the Atlantic World

Colonial Period (1600-1775)General Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0415928826
ISBN13: 9780415928823
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 31 2002
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

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.

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