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Ladies, Women, and Wenches

Author : Jane H. Pease
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469639629
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Ladies, Women, and Wenches written by Jane H. Pease and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuing the meaning of gender in nineteenth-century urban American society, Ladies, Women, and Wenches compares the lives of women living in two distinctive antebellum cultures, Charleston and Boston, between 1820 and 1850. In contrast to most contemporary histories of women, this study examines the lives of all types of women in both cities: slave and free, rich and poor, married and single, those who worked mostly at home and those who led more public lives. Jane Pease and William Pease argue that legal, political, economic, and cultural contraints did limit the options available to women. Nevertheless, women had opportunities to make meaningful choices about their lives and sometimes to achieve considerable autonomy. By comparing the women of Charleston and Boston, the authors explore how both urbanization and regional differences -- especially with regard to slavery -- governed all women's lives. They assess the impact of marriage and work on women's religious, philanthropic, and reform activity and examine the female uses of education and property in order to illuminate the considerable variation in women's lives. Finally, they consider women's choices of life-style, ranging from compliance with to defiance of increasingly rigid social precepts defining appropriate female behavior. However bound women were by society's prescriptions describing their role or by the class structure of their society, they chose their ways of life from among such options as spinsterhood or marriage, domesticity or paid work, charitable activity or the social whirl, the solace of religion or the escape of drink. Drawing on a variety of sources including diaries, court documents, and contemporary literature, Ladies, Women, and Wenches explores how the women of Charleston and Boston made the choices in their lives between total dependence and full autonomy.

Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs

Author : Kathleen M. Brown
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807838292
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs written by Kathleen M. Brown and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Brown examines the origins of racism and slavery in British North America from the perspective of gender. Both a basic social relationship and a model for other social hierarchies, gender helped determine the construction of racial categories and the institution of slavery in Virginia. But the rise of racial slavery also transformed gender relations, including ideals of masculinity. In response to the presence of Indians, the shortage of labor, and the insecurity of social rank, Virginia's colonial government tried to reinforce its authority by regulating the labor and sexuality of English servants and by making legal distinctions between English and African women. This practice, along with making slavery hereditary through the mother, contributed to the cultural shift whereby women of African descent assumed from lower-class English women both the burden of fieldwork and the stigma of moral corruption. Brown's analysis extends through Bacon's Rebellion in 1676, an important juncture in consolidating the colony's white male public culture, and into the eighteenth century. She demonstrates that, despite elite planters' dominance, wives, children, free people of color, and enslaved men and women continued to influence the meaning of race and class in colonial Virginia.

Ladies, Women & Wenches

Author : Jane H and William H Pease
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780807863787
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (637 download)

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Download or read book Ladies, Women & Wenches written by Jane H and William H Pease and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Wenches, Wives and Servant Girls

Author : Don N. Hagist
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781893832176
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Wenches, Wives and Servant Girls written by Don N. Hagist and published by . This book was released on 2008-03-23 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Why Women Cry

Author : Elizabeth Hawes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Why Women Cry written by Elizabeth Hawes and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Running from Bondage

Author : Karen Cook Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108831540
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Running from Bondage written by Karen Cook Bell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling examination of the ways enslaved women fought for their freedom during and after the Revolutionary War.

Wench

Author : Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061706566
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Wench written by Dolen Perkins-Valdez and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: wench \'wench\ n. from Middle English “wenchel,” 1 a: a girl, maid, young woman; a female child. Situated in Ohio, a free territory before the Civil War, Tawawa House is an idyllic retreat for Southern white men who vacation there every summer with their enslaved black mistresses. It’s their open secret. Lizzie, Reenie, and Sweet are regulars at the resort, building strong friendships over the years. But when Mawu, as fearless as she is assured, comes along and starts talking of running away, things change. To run is to leave everything behind, and for some it also means escaping from the emotional and psychological bonds that bind them to their masters. When a fire on the resort sets off a string of tragedies, the women of Tawawa House soon learn that triumph and dehumanization are inseparable and that love exists even in the most inhuman, brutal of circumstances— all while they bear witness to the end of an era. An engaging, page-turning, and wholly original novel, Wench explores, with an unflinching eye, the moral complexities of slavery.

Warriors and Wenches

Author : Michelle Rosenberg
Publisher : History Snapshots
ISBN 13 : 9781473899360
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Warriors and Wenches written by Michelle Rosenberg and published by History Snapshots. This book was released on 2019-09-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is full of women we don't know whose stories have been overlooked or airbrushed from history. Often faced with limited life choices, this book proudly showcases those women who took matters into their own hands and became forces to be reckoned with. These are women you SHOULD know about. Love them or loathe them, they made their mark. From cross dressing soldiers to scheming mistresses and courtesans, _Warriors and Wenches_ offers up an indulgent romp through centuries of history, from widows turned tank drivers bent on bloody vengeance and fierce martial arts fighters, to women who magnificently and outrageously turned their social lot in life to their advantage: the mistresses, courtesans and uniquely French maitresse-en-titres who wielded incredible power and influence in the sumptuous courts of Europe. _Warriors and Wenches_ doesn't seek to decide whether these women were 'good' or 'bad'; we'll leave it up to you to make up your own minds. But these are just some of the women who, through military skill, incredible courage and loyalty, scandal, poison plots and sexual debaucherie, have crossed over into the realm of legend and myth and become powerful symbols of feminist power. "When the destiny of a nation is in a woman's bedroom, the best place for the historian is in the antechamber." Charles-Augustin Sainte-Reuve

Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island

Author : M. E. Reilly-McGreen
Publisher : Wicked
ISBN 13 : 9781596299375
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island written by M. E. Reilly-McGreen and published by Wicked. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the history of Rhode Island and learn about the Ocean State's most fascinating and wild women. Read of Mercy Brown, a nineteen-year-old consumption victim who was thought to be a vampire and whose body was exhumed and discovered with blood in the heart. There was Goody Seager, accused of infesting her neighbor's cheese with maggots by using witchcraft, and Tall "Dutch" Kattern of Block Island, an opium-eating fortune teller whose curse, legend says, set a ship aflame after its crew cast her ashore. Hear of the revolutionaries, like Julia Ward Howe, who invented Mother's Day and wrote the words to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," and religious reformer Anne Hutchinson, said to be the inspiration for Hawthorne's heroine in The Scarlet Letter, in these thrilling tales from author M.E. Reilly-McGreen.

Masterful Women

Author : Kirsten E. Wood
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807863777
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Masterful Women written by Kirsten E. Wood and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many early-nineteenth-century slaveholders considered themselves "masters" not only over slaves, but also over the institutions of marriage and family. According to many historians, the privilege of mastery was reserved for white males. But as many as one in ten slaveholders--sometimes more--was a widow, and as Kirsten E. Wood demonstrates, slaveholding widows between the American Revolution and the Civil War developed their own version of mastery. Because their husbands' wills and dower law often gave women authority over entire households, widowhood expanded both their domestic mandate and their public profile. They wielded direct power not only over slaves and children but also over white men--particularly sons, overseers, and debtors. After the Revolution, southern white men frequently regarded powerful widows as direct threats to their manhood and thus to the social order. By the antebellum decades, however, these women found support among male slaveholders who resisted the popular claim that all white men were by nature equal, regardless of wealth. Slaveholding widows enjoyed material, legal, and cultural resources to which most other southerners could only aspire. The ways in which they did--and did not--translate those resources into social, political, and economic power shed new light on the evolution of slaveholding society.

Wanton Wenches and Wayward Wives

Author : G. R. Quaife
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429615124
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Wanton Wenches and Wayward Wives written by G. R. Quaife and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1979. This highly detailed study of illicit sex amongst the peasantry of Somerset between 1601 and 1660 recreates the atmosphere of the period and questions a number of previously accepted hypotheses. Based on the depositions presented to the county and regional courts during this period, it sheds as much light on prevailing village attitudes as it does on the specific discussion matter. Outlining the precarious existence of the peasant and the supervision of sexual morality, the book looks at pre-marital sex, pregnancy, prostitution, masturbation, contraception, rape, homosexuality and incest, along with the prevailing punishments of the time. This extensively researched work combines both demographic and literary-based analyses, with analytical and anecdotal approaches to the subject. It presents a rich source of social history, examining and questioning the role of Christian morality as an important factor in influencing the sexual habits of the peasant.

Wives, Women and Wenches

Author : Margaret Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wives, Women and Wenches written by Margaret Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dark Debt

Author : Chloe Neill
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698180712
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Dark Debt written by Chloe Neill and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] WONDERFULLY COMPELLING RELUCTANT VAMPIRE HEROINE.”— USA Today Bestselling Author Julie Kenner Between standing Sentinel of Cadogan house and making society appearances with House Master Ethan Sullivan, a new member of the American Association of Vampires, Merit has her hands full. The last thing she needs is trouble, especially of the deadly kind. But when an old friend shows up in need, Merit can’t refuse. Morgan Greer, Master of House Navarre, has gotten himself into serious debt with a dangerous Chicago crime syndicate known as the Triad. And they’re willing to exact more than a pound of flesh for payback—unless Merit can find a way to stop them. Only the Triad’s connections go deeper than Merit knows, and even one wrong move could be her last…

Wenches, Wives & Widows

Author : JoAnn Riley McKey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780788442759
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Wenches, Wives & Widows written by JoAnn Riley McKey and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some women who lived on the Eastern Shore of Virginia were prone to bad behavior; others had bad things happen to them, but all of their stories are too good to leave buried in the old record books. During the 1600s and early 1700s, a wide range of circum

Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island

Author : M. E. Reilly-McGreen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614230633
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)

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Download or read book Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island written by M. E. Reilly-McGreen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the most fearsome and fascinating women to ever live in the Ocean State in this collection of wild historical profiles. In Witches, Wenches & Wild Women of Rhode Island, local historian M.E. Reilly-McGreen reveals true tales of women who caused scandals in their day. It’s a compendium of rebellious deeds, outlandish gossip, and superstition run amok. Mercy Brown was a nineteen-year-old consumption victim thought to be a vampire. Locals were so afraid of Mercy that her body was exhumed to perform a ritual banishment of the undead. Goody Seager was accused of infesting her neighbor’s cheese with maggots by using witchcraft. According to legend, Tall “Dutch” Kattern was an opium-eating fortuneteller whose curse set a ship aflame after its crew cast her ashore. Along with these tales, you’ll read of revolutionaries, like Julia Ward Howe, who invented Mother’s Day; and religious reformers like Anne Hutchinson, said to be the inspiration for Hawthorne's heroine in The Scarlet Letter; and many others.

Derrida and Feminism

Author : Ellen Feder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317959167
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Derrida and Feminism written by Ellen Feder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever compilation of articles that highlights the intersection of Derridean and feminist theories--a work that represents the extensive and diverse response feminist theorists have had to Derrida, particularly to the issues of gender, identity, and the construction of the subject.

Women in Shakespeare

Author : Alison Findlay
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472557514
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Women in Shakespeare written by Alison Findlay and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive reference guide examining the language employed by Shakespeare to represent women in the full range of his poetry and plays. Including over 350 entries, Alison Findlay shows the role of women within Shakespearean drama, their representations on the Shakespearean stage, and their place in Shakespeare's personal and professional lives.