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200 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780801479052
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 15 February 2014
Description
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 qu...
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200 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780801479052
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 15 February 2014
Description
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 qu...