| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Terri L. Snyder. Brabbling Women: Disorderly Speech and the Law in Early Virginia. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2003. Pp. xi, 182. $34.95.

Until recently, the history of women in colonial British America stopped somewhere near the southern border of Connecticut, while the history of women in the southern United States began around 1830. Julia Cherry Spruill's antiquated classic, Women's Life and Work in the Southern Colonies (1938), found a place in college classrooms well into the 1980s simply because so little had been written to replace it. During the last decade, however, a host of innovative books have demonstrated the importance—perhaps even the centrality—of the southern colonies, especially Virginia, to American women's history. Adding to the conversation begun by such scholars as Jacqueline Jones, Kathleen M. Brown, Mary Beth Norton, Cynthia A. Kierner, and Kirsten Fischer, Terri L. Snyder's book enhances our understanding of the complex interplay of gender, race, class, and law amid what she calls "the changing sea of inequalities" in early America (p. 2).

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