The Fair Sex. White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic.
Pauline E. Schloesser
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 ... Read more
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The Journal of American History
Provides an excellent theory for understanding the mutual constitution of race and gender in the formation of & womens identity
Women & Politics
Combining methodologies from history ... Read more