| Previews | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Thomas Jefferson has long been characterized as a Francophile. But, as Brian Steele shows, Jefferson's experience in France led him to articulate a full-blown American exceptionalism that was rooted in a domestic order unencumbered by the multiple artificialities that kept European men and women from practicing what Jefferson viewed as their natural gender roles. Jefferson's liberal critique of foreign cultures and political systems that oppressed women and effeminized men translated into an affirmation of America's natural gender practices. His embrace of republican womanhood is unsurprising. What is notable, though, is the centrality of gender and domesticity to Jefferson's conception of America's uniqueness and superiority.

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