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Snyder, Terri L. "'Rich Widows Are the Best Commodity This Country Affords': Gender Relations and the Rehabilitation of Patriarchy in Seventeenth-Century Virginia," University of Iowa, May 1992. Advisor: Linda K. Kerber (11, 23, 22)
This dissertation examines the changing status of white women in Virginia from 1660 to 1700. It employs the methodologies of literary criticism and social history, and the evidence considered includes fiction, promotional literature, personal and official correspondence and accounts of events, statute law, and a quantitative analysis of the court records of York County, Virginia. I argue that while the circumstances of Virginia’s settlement destabilized patriarchal authority, this resulted only in a limited and temporary improvement in the status of white women. My dissertation analyzes the processes by which patriarchal authority was rehabilitated and the roles of white women were circumscribed.
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