Books by Kathleen M. Brown

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

  by Kathleen M. Brown - 512 pages - 1996-11-25 - The University of North Carolina Press

  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…