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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... morals and values among the founding generation. The language they used was republicanism; they spoke about the common good, the good of the republic, and the virtues necessary to uphold this common good, and those vices which must be ...
... moral authority were delimited by age, class, and especially, race. Only white women of property-owning classes enjoyed moral authority in republican discourses. Still, race has remained marginalized from the discussion of women's ...
... moral status. They are considered subpersons and then relegated to a subordinate civil standing in the white-controlled polity. The racial contract also invokes a “moral geography” separating white, civilized from dark, barbarian space ...
... moral, uncivilized beings. In defining the beginnings of civilization through technological developments of ... morality to whites exclusively. According to Mills, in Kant's hierarchy of human nature, the whites occupied the superior ...
... moral cognitive distortion may apply. If humanness was the essential quality by which one was endowed with natural rights, the question of who belonged in that category was now a matter of controversy. Slaves and other anti-slavery ...
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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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