| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Linda L. Sturtz. Within Her Power: Propertied Women in Colonial Virginia. (The New World in the Atlantic World.) New York: Routledge. 2002. Pp. xv, 278. $85.00.

Linda L. Sturtz's study of propertied women in colonial Virginia profits from the work of the many scholars before her who have struggled with the issue of female agency in the bleak legal landscape of the colonial past. The written law in Virginia, as well as other parts of British colonial North America, could be oppressive, particularly for married women. Sturtz argues that looking beyond statute law to the lived experiences of propertied women in Virginia reveals a complex terrain of female agency. Women used, manipulated, and ignored the legal system to obtain the power they needed.

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