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Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville

ISBN-13: 9780271034034
Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Edited by Jill Locke, Edited by Eileen Hunt Botting
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Local release date: 16/03/2009
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Categories: Politics & government [JP]

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Explores the relationship of the life and work of Alexis de Toqueville (1805-1859) to modern feminisms, especially as they pertain to the analysis of gender, sex, sexuality, race, class, ethnicity, nationality, and colonialism.

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: To Tocqueville and Beyond

Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting

1. Beyond the Bon Ménage: Tocqueville and the Paradox of Liberal Citoyennes

Cheryl B. Welch

2. Democracy’s Family Values

Laura Janara

3. Tocqueville and the Feminization of the Bourgeoisie

Dana Villa

4. A Family Resemblance: Tocqueville and Wollstonecraftian Protofeminism

Eileen Hunt Botting

5. Aristocratic Mourning: Tocqueville, John Quincy Adams, and the Affairs of Andrew Jackson

Jill Locke

6. Sympathy, Equality, and Consent: Tocqueville and Harriet Martineau on Women and Democracy in America

Lisa Pace Vetter

7. Tocqueville’s American Woman and “The True Conception of Democratic Progress.”

Delba Winthrop

8. Toward a Generative Theory of Equality

Kathleen S. Sullivan

9. Imperial Fathers and Favorite Sons: J. S. Mill, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Nineteenth-Century Visions of Empire

Richard Boyd

10. Tocqueville, Black Writers, and American Ethnology: Rethinking the Foundations of Whiteness Studies

Alvin B. Tillery Jr.

11. The Separate Spheres Paradox: Habitual Inattention and Democratic Citizenship

Jocelyn M. Boryczka

12. Tocqueville’s Authority: Feminism and Reform “Between Government and Civil Society”

Barbara Cruikshank

Annotated Bibliography on Alexis de Tocqueville and Gender, Feminism, and Race

Christine Carey

Contributors

Index

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