The Fair Sex: White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American RepublicNYU Press, 2002 - 243 páginas Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2002 |
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... poor, virtuous over wicked, master over slave, native-born Anglo-American over foreigner, white over Negro and Indian, and man over woman.8 Only white American-born men with property and 18 | Toward a Theory of Racial Patriarchy.
... native Americans who labored the land as neither “industrious” nor “rational.” White persons are taken to exhibit their superior rationality by appropriating uncultivated land and adding value to it. Thus, the appropriation of Native ...
... Native Americans figure as members of a subdued foreign nation. Otis argues that the representation rights of the British colonists are deserved because the colonists' forefathers had “worn away” their lives “in war with the savages ...
... native lands obstructed “the natural course of civilization and improvement” in Africa.20 It corrupted reason, industry, political obligation, sympathy, and marital chastity. Thomas Jefferson was most explicit in his analysis of slavery ...
... native inferiority of the Negroes, or the lack of civilization in Africa, anti-slavery activists like Benjamin Rush and Arthur Lee made efforts to explain why the Negro seemed barbaric and inferior. Their attempt to rationalize “brutish ...
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3 The Ideology of the Fair Sex | 53 |
Mercy Otis Warren as a Reluctant Signatory | 83 |
The PoliticalPragmatism of Abigail Adams | 114 |
Judith SargentMurray and the American Enlightenment | 154 |
7 Conclusion | 187 |
Epilogue | 193 |
Appendix | 199 |
Notes | 203 |
Bibliography | 225 |
Index | 237 |
About the Author | 243 |
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The Fair Sex: White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic Pauline E. Schloesser Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
The Fair Sex: White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic Pauline E. Schloesser Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
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