TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schloesser,Pauline E.
TI  - The Fair Sex: White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic 
SN  - 9780814797631
U1  - 305.42/0973/09033 
PY  - 2005///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abigail
KW  - Adams
KW  - Judith
KW  - Murray--and
KW  - Otis
KW  - Sargent
KW  - Smith
KW  - Warren
KW  - carefully
KW  - examination
KW  - female
KW  - gender
KW  - hierarchies
KW  - intellectuals--Mercy
KW  - lives
KW  - nation
KW  - negotiated
KW  - political
KW  - racial
KW  - they
KW  - three
KW  - writings
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2002 Once the egalitarian passions of the American Revolution had dimmed, the new nation settled into a conservative period that saw the legal and social subordination of women and non-white men. Among the Founders who brought the fledgling government into being were those who sought to establish order through the reconstruction of racial and gender hierarchies. In this effort they enlisted "the fair sex,"&#-white women. Politicians, ministers, writers, husbands, fathers and brothers entreated Anglo-American women to assume responsibility for the nation's virtue. Thus, although disfranchised, they served an important national function, that of civilizing non-citizen. They were encouraged to consider themselves the moral and intellectual superiors to non-whites, unruly men, and children. These white women were empowered by race and ethnicity, and class, but limited by gender. And in seeking to maintain their advantages, they helped perpetuate the system of racial domination by refusing to support the liberation of others from literal slavery. Schloesser examines the lives and writings of three female political intellectuals-;Mercy Otis Warren, Abigail Smith Adams, and Judith Sargent Murray-;each of whom was acutely aware of their tenuous position in the founding era of the republic. Carefully negotiating the gender and racial hierarchies of the nation, they at varying times asserted their rights and demurred to male governance. In their public and private actions they represented the paradigm of racial patriarchy at its most complex and its most conflicted
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