Brabbling Women

Name: Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia
Brand: Cornell University Press
SKU: 9780801479052
Price: 4363.00 INR
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Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia

by Terri L. Snyder

Cornell University Press

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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.

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