Feminist interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville / edited by Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Locke, Jill, 1969-

Hunt, Eileen M., 1971-

Series:

Re-reading the canon

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.

Tocqueville, Alexis de.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

ix, 367 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2009]

Summary:

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

Contents:

Introduction : To Tocqueville and beyond / Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting

Beyond the bon ménage : Tocqueville and the paradox of liberal citoyennes / Cheryl B. Welch

Democracy's family values / Laura Janara

Tocqueville and the feminization of the bourgeoisie / Dana Villa

A family resemblance : Tocqueville and Wollstonecraftian protofeminism / Eileen Hunt Botting

Aristocratic mourning : Tocqueville, John Quincy Adams, and the affairs of Andrew Jackson / Jill Locke

Sympathy, equality, and consent : Tocqueville and Harriet Martineau on women and democracy in America / Lisa Pace Vetter

Tocqueville's American woman and "the true conception of democratic progress" / Delba Winthrop

Toward a generative theory of equality / Kathleen S. Sullivan

Imperial fathers and favorite sons : J.S. Mill, Alexis de Tocqueville, and nineteenth-century visions of empire / Richard Boyd

Tocqueville, Black writers, and American ethnology : rethinking the foundations of Whiteness studies / Alvin B. Tillery, Jr.

The separate spheres paradox : habitual inattention and democratic citizenship / Jocelyn M. Boryczka

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [337]-351) and index.

ISBN:

9780271034027

0271034025

9780271034034

0271034033

OCLC:

232536684