Democracy growing up : authority, autonomy, and passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America /

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In this feminist reading of Tocqueville's famous Democracy in America, Janara (political science, U. of British Columbia) explores the familial and gendered imagery used in the text to discuss American democracy. She argues that a feminized image of stable aristocratic order is placed in opposi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Janara, Laura, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002.
Colección:SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues.
Temas:
Tocqueville, Alexis de, > 1805-1859. > De la démocratie en Amérique.
De la démocratie en Amérique (Tocqueville, Alexis de)
To 1865
Autonomy (Psychology)
Gender identity.
Gender Identity
Identité de genre.
sex role.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
Gender identity
Politics and government
Social conditions
United States > Politics and government.
United States > Social conditions > To 1865.
États-Unis > Politique et gouvernement.
États-Unis > Conditions sociales > Jusqu'à 1865.
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. "The Key to Almost the Whole Work"
  • French and U.S. Discourse
  • Interpreting Tocqueville's Imagery: A Psychoanalytic Framework
  • What Tocqueville Fears: Democracy's Three Potentialities
  • Abyss
  • Interpreting Tocqueville's Imagery: Tocqueville in History
  • Dinnerstein's Theory and Tocqueville's Democracy
  • Diagnosing the Democratic Psyche
  • 2. Genealogy, Birth, and Growth
  • Democracy in France: Urchin Orphan
  • Democracy in America: Wilderness Expecting
  • Saginaw: A Scarcely Formed Embryo
  • Mother England
  • Resisting the Mother: Democracy as Adolescent
  • 3. Adolescence and Maturity
  • Adolescence
  • Manliness or Individualism?
  • Democracy in School
  • Passion for Equality's Charms
  • Religion, Mores, Morality: Female Bulwark for Maturity
  • Democratic Maturity?
  • 4. Homo Puer Robustus: Property, Commerce, Industry
  • Impulse for Enterprise
  • Anxiety and Unsated Desire
  • Exploiting the Land, Fearing the Flesh, Ennobling Money
  • Money, Marriage, and Manly Citizenship
  • Middle Class Desire and the Stilling of Politics
  • Workers, Owners, and the Veil of Contract
  • State as Parent
  • 5. Impotence and Infantilism
  • Hypermasculine Individualism
  • Public Opinion: Elle mene le monde
  • Female Administration: Male Government
  • Guardian State
  • Infantilism and Impotence
  • 6. Democracy's Family Values
  • Democracy as Self-Mastery: Fathers, Sons, and Brothers
  • Girls: Democracy's Shadow Figures
  • Fear and Desire: Containing the American Woman
  • Marriage and Sex: Resurrecting Order
  • Democracy's Gender and Family Foundations
  • Conclusion: Family, Gender, and Democratic Maturity.

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