001479755 000__ 05565nam\a22010215i\4500 001479755 001__ 1479755 001479755 003__ DE-B1597 001479755 005__ 20231026035109.0 001479755 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479755 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479755 008__ 230918t20052005nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479755 020__ $$a9780814739976 001479755 0247_ $$a10.18574/nyu/9780814739976.001.0001$$2doi 001479755 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)548038 001479755 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479755 0410_ $$aeng 001479755 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001479755 072_7 $$aPOL010000$$2bisacsh 001479755 08204 $$a305.42/0973/09033 001479755 1001_ $$aSchloesser, Pauline E., $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut. 001479755 24514 $$aThe Fair Sex :$$bWhite Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic /$$cPauline E. Schloesser. 001479755 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : : $$bNew York University Press, $$c[2005] 001479755 264_4 $$c©2005 001479755 300__ $$a1 online resource 001479755 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479755 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479755 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479755 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479755 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tPreface -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$t1 Race, Gender, and Woman Citizenship in the American Founding -- $$t2 Toward a Theory of Racial Patriarchy -- $$t3 The Ideology of the "Fair Sex" -- $$t4 The Philosopher Queen and the U.S. Constitution: Mercy Otis Warren as a Reluctant Signatory -- $$t5 From Revolution to Racial Patriarchy: The Political Pragmatism of Abigail Adams -- $$t6 Gleaning a Self between the Lines: Judith Sargent Murray and the American Enlightenment -- $$t7 Conclusion -- $$tEpilogue -- $$tAppendix -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex -- $$tAbout the Author 001479755 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479755 520__ $$aChoice Outstanding Academic Title 2002 Once the egalitarian passions of the American Revolution had dimmed, the new nation settled into a conservative period that saw the legal and social subordination of women and non-white men. Among the Founders who brought the fledgling government into being were those who sought to establish order through the reconstruction of racial and gender hierarchies. In this effort they enlisted "the fair sex,"&#-white women. Politicians, ministers, writers, husbands, fathers and brothers entreated Anglo-American women to assume responsibility for the nation's virtue. Thus, although disfranchised, they served an important national function, that of civilizing non-citizen. They were encouraged to consider themselves the moral and intellectual superiors to non-whites, unruly men, and children. These white women were empowered by race and ethnicity, and class, but limited by gender. And in seeking to maintain their advantages, they helped perpetuate the system of racial domination by refusing to support the liberation of others from literal slavery. Schloesser examines the lives and writings of three female political intellectuals-;Mercy Otis Warren, Abigail Smith Adams, and Judith Sargent Murray-;each of whom was acutely aware of their tenuous position in the founding era of the republic. Carefully negotiating the gender and racial hierarchies of the nation, they at varying times asserted their rights and demurred to male governance. In their public and private actions they represented the paradigm of racial patriarchy at its most complex and its most conflicted. 001479755 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479755 546__ $$aIn English. 001479755 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. 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