Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia.

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Journal Article Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. By Kathleen M. Brown. (Chapel Hill: Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, 1996. xvi, 496 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8078-2307-4. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8078-4623-6.) Get access Joan R. Gundersen Joan R. Gundersen Elon College, Elon College, North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 3, December 1997, Pages 1043–1044, https://doi.org/10.2307/2953120 Published: 01 December 1997