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Tables of Contents for Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
Illustrations and Tables
xiii
Abbreviations and Notes on the Text
xv
Introduction
1
12
PART I. GENDER FRONTIERS
Gender and English Identity on the Eve of Colonial Settlement
13
29
The Anglo-Indian Gender Frontier
42
33
``Good Wives'' and ``Nasty Wenches'': Gender and Social Order in a Colonial Settlement
75
32
PART II. ENGENDERING RACIAL DIFFERENCE
Engendering Racial Difference, 1640-1670
107
30
Vile Rogues and Honorable Men: Nathaniel Bacon and the Dilemma of Colonial Masculinity
137
50
From ``Foul Crimes'' to ``Spurious Issue'': Sexual Regulation and the Social Construction of Race
187
25
``Born of a Free Woman'': Gender and the Politics of Freedom
212
35
PART III. CLASS AND POWER IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Marriage, Class Formation, and the Performance of Male Gentility
247
36
Tea Table Discourses and Slandeous Tongues: The Domestic Choreography of Female Identities
283
36
Anxious Partiarchs
319
48
Afterword
367
8
Notes
375
98
Index
473