Janara Democracy Growing Up

Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8836-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 266 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Political Theory: Contemporary Issues

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Janara, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Tocquevilles' 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
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 mène 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
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Laura Janara is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.