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The Fair Sex: White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic

By Pauline Schloesser. New York University Press, New York, 2002, 243 pp., $45.00.

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Riggs, D.W. The Fair Sex: White Women and Racial Patriarchy in the Early American Republic. Arch Sex Behav 36, 123–125 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-006-9115-6

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