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Terri L. Snyder
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| #1633565 in Books | Terri L Snyder | 2013-11-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.90 x.60 x6.00l,.60 | File type: PDF | 200 pages | Brabbling Women||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| INTERESTING READ|By Amber Nuuvali|This was a very interesting read. I bought this book for a history class I'm currently taking-History of American Law-and was so intrigued by the portrayal of women and their attempts to find alternative ways around the law, which was a law that did not offer women many rights or liberties. Accordingly, it's a great depiction of the origin of w||| "Do not look for women who conformed to seventeenth-century models of polite decorum in this absorbing book. Terri L. Snyder offers us a close reading of early Virginians' attitudes toward women's speech along with a fresh look at how women earned men's dis
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 use of ...
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