Within Her Power

This is an engaging and comprehensive study of property-owning women in the colony of Tidewater VA during the 17th & 18th centuries. It examines the social restrictions on women's behaviour and speech opportunities and difficulties these women encountered in the legal system the economic and discretionary authority they enjoyed the roles they played in the family businesstheir roles in the later trans-Atlantic trading framework and the imperial context within which these colonial women lived making this a welcome addition to both colonial and women's history.