Cornell University Press
Brabbling Women (English, Terri L. Snyder)
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Brabbling Women takes its title from a 1662 law enacted by Virginia's burgesses, which was intended to offer relief to the "poore husbands" forced into defamation suits because their "brabling" wives had slandered or scandalized their neighbors. To quell such episodes of female misrule, lawmakers decreed that husbands could choose either to pay damages or to have their wives publicly ducked.But there was more at stake here. By examining women's u…
ISBN: 9780801479052
Specifications
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Language | English |
| ISBN-13 | 9780801479052 |
| ISBN-10 | 0801479053 |
| Author | Terri L. Snyder |
