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| ContentsAcknowledgments Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations and Notes on the Text Introduction | |
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| Gender Frontiers | |
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| Gender and English Identity on the Eve of Colonial Settlement | |
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| The Anglo-Indian Gender Frontier | |
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| "Good Wives" and "Nasty Wenches": Gender and Social Order in a Colonial Settlement | |
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| Engendering Racial Difference | |
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| Engendering Racial Difference, 1640-1670 | |
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| Vile Rogues and Honorable Men: Nathaniel Bacon and the Dilemma of Colonial Masculinity | |
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| From "Foul Crimes" to "Spurious Issue": Sexual Regulation and the Social Construction of Race | |
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| "Born of a Free Woman": Gender and the Politics of Freedom | |
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| Class and Power in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| Marriage, Class Formation, and the Performance of Male Gentility | |
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| Tea Table Discourses and Slanderous Tongues: The Domestic Choreography of Female Identities | |
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| Anxious PatriarchsAfterword Notes IndexMaps | |
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| Colonial Virginia in the Middle of the Seventeenth Century | |
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| The Powhatans and Their Neighbors in 1607Figures | |
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| Pocahontas | |
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| Indian Woman | |
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| Captain John Smith | |
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| Powhatan Addressing His People | |
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| Bastardy Cases Attributed to White Servant Women by Decade, Norfolk, Lancaster, and York Counties | |
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| Inventory of Edward Nicken Signed by Mary Nicken | |
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| Westover Floor Plan, circa 1726 | |
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| Lucy Parke Byrd 9.Virginian Luxuries Tables | |
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| Successful Tax-Exemption Petitions, Norfolk, Lancaster, and York Counties | |
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| Slander Cases, Norfolk, Lancaster, and York Counties | |
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| Reported Runaway Servants and Slaves, 1643-1675, Norfolk, Lancaster, and York Counties | |
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| Punishments for Bastardy by White Female Servants, Norfolk, Lancaster, and York Counties | |
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| Interracial Bastardy Offenses by White Servant Women, 1660-1729, Norfolk, Lancaster, and York Counties | |