| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

The Fair Sex: White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic. By Pauline Schloesser. (New York: New York University Press, 2002. xii, 243 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-8147-9763-6.)

In this provocative book, Pauline Schloesser relies on a theory of racial patriarchy to explain the roots of white and male supremacy in the early United States. This racial patriarchy established a pecking order of whites and people of color as well as of men and women during the early national period. Schloesser focuses her study on the position of white women and argues that they held a unique place in this racial and gender hierarchy. She describes the fair sex ideology that praised white women for their whiteness at the same time that it subjugated them due to their sex. Her work examines how institutions in early America, including schools, slavery, and churches, helped to promote fair sex ideology as a means of reinforcing racial patriarchy. . . .

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