The Ties That Buy LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century Sexual Types provides illuminating new

Sexual Types provides illuminating new readings of familiar plays

he gathered together papers amounting to almost 50

In the first in-depth treatment of McBride

the first to interweave Baraka's art and political activities

and societal strands to produce a sweeping and detailed work of historical analysis

The Ties That Buy LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century Sexual Types provides illuminating newIn 1770, tavernkeeper Abigail Stoneman called in her debts by flourishing a handful of playing cards before the Rhode Island Court of Common Pleas. Scrawled on the cards were the IOUs of drinkers whose links to Stoneman testified to women's paradoxical place in the urban economy of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Stoneman did traditional women's workboarding, feeding, cleaning, and selling alcoholbut her customers, like her