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Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia
ISBN: 9780801440526 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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 language, Terri L. Snyder demonstrates how women resisted and challenged oppressive political, legal, and cultural practices... Brabbling Women takes its title from a 1662 law enacted by Virginia's burgesses, which was intended to offer relief to the "poore husbands... |
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262,34 zł |
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The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North America
ISBN: 9780226280561 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The history of slavery in early America is a history of suicide. On ships crossing the Atlantic, enslaved men and women refused to eat or leaped into the ocean. They strangled or hanged themselves. They tore open their own throats. In America, they jumped into rivers or out of windows, or even ran into burning buildings. Faced with the reality of enslavement, countless Africans chose death instead.
In "The Power to Die," Terri L. Snyder excavates the history of slave suicide, returning it to its central place in early American history. How did people traders, plantation owners, and, most... The history of slavery in early America is a history of suicide. On ships crossing the Atlantic, enslaved men and women refused to eat or leaped into ...
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215,40 zł |
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Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia
ISBN: 9780801479052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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 language, Terri L. Snyder demonstrates how women resisted and challenged oppressive political, legal, and cultural practices... Brabbling Women takes its title from a 1662 law enacted by Virginia's burgesses, which was intended to offer relief to the "poore husbands... |
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146,86 zł |
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As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas
ISBN: 9781108737036 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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130,52 zł |
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As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas
ISBN: 9781108493406 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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418,81 zł |
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