Democracy Growing Up: Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America

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SUNY Press, 12.09.2002 - 256 Seiten
Tocqueville s Democracy in America continues to be widely read, but for all this familiarity, the vivid imagery with which he conveys his ideas has been overlooked, left to act with unexamined force upon readers imaginations. In this first sustained feminist reading of Democracy in America Laura Janara assesses the dramatic feminine, masculine, and infantile metaphorical figures that represent the historical political drama that is Tocqueville s primary topic. These tropes are analyzed as both historical artifacts and symbols for psychoanalytic interpretation, deepening and complicating the standing interpretations of Tocqueville s work. Democracy Growing Up comments critically upon the peculiar gendered and familial foundations of modern Western democracy and upon the notion of democratic maturity that Tocqueville offers us.
 

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THE KEY TO ALMOST THE WHOLE WORK
9
French and US Discourse
12
A Psychoanalytic Framework
19
Democracys Three Potentialities
27
The Abyss
30
Tocqueville in History
33
Dinnersteins Theory and Tocquevilles Democracy
37
Diagnosing the Democratic Psyche
43
Anxiety and Unsated Desire
104
Exploiting the Land Fearing the Flesh Ennobling Money
108
Money Marriage and Manly Citizenship
111
Middle Class Desire and the Stilling of Politics
115
Workers Owners and the Veil of Contract
117
The State as Parent
125
IMPOTENCE AND INFANTILISM
129
Hypermasculine Individualism
130

GENEALOGY BIRTH AND GROWTH
47
Urchin Orphan
48
Wilderness Expecting
51
A Scarcely Formed Embryo
55
Mother England
59
Democracy as Adolescent
65
ADOLESCENCE AND MATURITY
69
Adolescence
71
Manliness or Individualism?
75
Democracy in School
77
Passion for Equalitys Charms
80
Female Bulwark for Maturity
85
Democratic Maturity?
91
HOMO PUER ROBUSTUS PROPERTY COMMERCE INDUSTRY
99
The Impulse for Enterprise
102
Elle mene le monde
133
Male Government
137
The Guardian State
148
Infantilism and Impotence
153
DEMOCRACYS FAMILY VALUES
157
Fathers Sons and Brothers
163
Democracys Shadow Figures
169
Containing the American Woman
173
Resurrecting Order
178
Democracys Gender and Family Foundations
181
FAMILY GENDER AND DEMOCRATIC MATURITY
185
Notes
197
Bibliography
229
Index
239
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Laura Janara is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.

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