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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958029403321

Autore

Janara Laura <1966->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002

ISBN

9780791488362

0791488365

9780585489278

0585489270

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (267 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Political Theory: Contemporary Issues

SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues

Disciplina

320.973

Soggetti

Autonomy (Psychology)

Gender identity

United States Politics and government

United States Social conditions To 1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

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