ContentsAcknowledgments Illustrations and Tables Abbreviations and Notes on the Text IntroductionPart I: Gender FrontiersChapter 1. Gender and English Identity on the Eve of Colonial Settlement Chapter 2. The Anglo-Indian Gender Frontier Chapter 3. "Good Wives" and "Nasty Wenches": Gender and Social Order in a Colonial SettlementPart II: Engendering Racial DifferenceChapter 4. Engendering Racial Difference, 1640-1670 Chapter 5. Vile Rogues and Honorable Men: Nathaniel Bacon and the Dilemma of Colonial Masculinity Chapter 6. From "Foul Crimes" to "Spurious Issue": Sexual Regulation and the Social Construction of Race Chapter 7. "Born of a Free Woman": Gender and the Politics of FreedomPart III: Class and Power in the Eighteenth CenturyChapter 8.

Marriage, Class Formation, and the Performance of Male Gentility Chapter 9. Tea Table Discourses and Slanderous Tongues: The Domestic Choreography of Female Identities Chapter 10. Anxious PatriarchsAfterword Notes IndexMaps1. Colonial Virginia in the Middle of the Seventeenth Century 2. The Powhatans and Their Neighbors in 1607Figures1. Pocahontas 2. Indian Woman 3. Captain John Smith 4.

Powhatan Addressing His People 5. Bastardy Cases Attributed to White Servant Women by Decade, Norfolk, Lancaster, and York Counties 6. Inventory of Edward Nicken Signed by Mary Nicken 7. Westover Floor Plan, circa 1726 8. Lucy Parke Byrd 9.Virginian Luxuries Tables1. Successful Tax-Exemption Petitions, Norfolk, Lancaster, and York Counties 2. Slander Cases, Norfolk, Lancaster, and York Counties 3.

Reported Runaway Servants and Slaves, 1643-1675, Norfolk, Lancaster, and York Counties 4. Punishments for Bastardy by White Female Servants, Norfolk, Lancaster, and York Counties 5. Interracial Bastardy Offenses by White Servant Women, 1660-1729, Norfolk, Lancaster, and York Counties.