UID:
almafu_9959238822102883
Umfang:
1 online resource (267 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-7914-8836-5
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0-585-48927-0
Serie:
SUNY series in Political Theory: Contemporary Issues
Inhalt:
The first sustained feminist interpretation of Tocqueville's classic, Democracy in America.
Anmerkung:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Intro -- DEMOCRACY GROWING UP -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 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 -- The 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 -- Democractic Maturity? -- 4. Homo Puer Robustus: Property, Commerce, Industry -- The 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 -- The State as Parent -- 5. Impotence and Infantilism -- Hypermasculine Individualism -- Public Opinion: Elle Mene le Monde -- Female Administration: Male Government -- The 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 -- Notes -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B.
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C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-7914-5442-8
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-7914-5441-X
Sprache:
Englisch
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