Democracy growing up : authority, autonomy, and passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America / by Laura Janara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Janara, Laura, 1966-

Series:

SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues

SUNY series in Political Theory: Contemporary Issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859. De la démocratie en Amérique.

Tocqueville, Alexis de.

Autonomy (Psychology).

Gender identity.

United States--Politics and government.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--To 1865.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The first sustained feminist interpretation of Tocqueville's classic, Democracy in America.

Contents:

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

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-238) and index.

ISBN:

9780791488362

0791488365

9780585489278

0585489270

OCLC:

61367531