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UNINA9910958029403321 |
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Autore |
Janara Laura <1966-> |
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Democracy growing up : authority, autonomy, and passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America / / by Laura Janara |
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Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002 |
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9780791488362 |
0791488365 |
9780585489278 |
0585489270 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (267 p.) |
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Collana |
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SUNY series in Political Theory: Contemporary Issues |
SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Autonomy (Psychology) |
Gender identity |
United States Politics and government |
United States Social conditions To 1865 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-238) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The first sustained feminist interpretation of Tocqueville's classic, Democracy in America. |
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