Democracy growing up : authority, autonomy, and passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America / / by Laura Janara
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| Autore: |
Janara Laura <1966->
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| Titolo: |
Democracy growing up : authority, autonomy, and passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America / / by Laura Janara
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| Pubblicazione: | Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (267 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 320.973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Autonomy (Psychology) |
| Gender identity | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Politics and government |
| United States Social conditions To 1865 | |
| 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. |
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| Sommario/riassunto: | The first sustained feminist interpretation of Tocqueville's classic, Democracy in America. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Democracy growing up |
| ISBN: | 9780791488362 |
| 0791488365 | |
| 9780585489278 | |
| 0585489270 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910958029403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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