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Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia
Brabbling Women Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia
Author: Terri L. Snyder
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...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801440526
ISBN-10: 0801440521
Pages: 182
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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