Feminist interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville - University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009. - ix, 367 p. ; 23 cm. - Re-reading the canon . - Re-reading the canon. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-351) and index.

Beyond the bon ménage : Tocqueville and the paradox of liberal citoyennes / Democracy's family values / Tocqueville and the feminization of the bourgeoisie / A family resemblance : Tocqueville and Wollstonecraftian protofeminism / Aristocratic mourning : Tocqueville, John Quincy Adams, and the affairs of Andrew Jackson / Sympathy, equality, and consent : Tocqueville and Harriet Martineau on women and democracy in America / Tocqueville's American woman and "the true conception of democratic progress" / Toward a generative theory of equality / Imperial fathers and favorite sons : J.S. Mill, Alexis de Tocqueville, and nineteenth-century visions of empire / Tocqueville, Black writers, and American ethnology : rethinking the foundations of Whiteness studies / The separate spheres paradox : habitual inattention and democratic citizenship / Tocqueville's authority : feminism and reform "between government and civil society" / Annotated bibliography on Alexis de Tocqueville and gender, feminism, and race / Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting -- Cheryl B. Welch -- Laura Janara -- Dana Villa -- Eileen Hunt Botting -- Jill Locke -- Lisa Pace Vetter -- Delba Winthrop -- Kathleen S. Sullivan -- Richard Boyd -- Alvin B. Tillery, Jr. -- Jocelyn M. Boryczka -- Barbara Cruikshank -- Christine Carey. Introduction : To Tocqueville and beyond /

"Explores the relationship of the life and work of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) to modern feminisms, especially as they pertain to the analysis of gender, sex, sexuality, race, class, ethnicity, nationality, and colonialism"--Provided by publisher.

9780271034027 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780271034034 (pbk. : alk. paper)

2008024583


Tocqueville, Alexis de


Feminism.

JC229.T8 / F46 2009

321.809

Please contact [email protected] in case you encounter any problems with the OPAC.