Feminist Interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville (Re-Reading the Canon Re-Reading the Canon)

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. Introduction : To Tocqueville And Beyond / Jill Locke And Eileen Hunt Botting -- Beyond The Bon Ménage : Tocqueville And The Paradox Of Liberal Citoyennes / Cheryl B. Welch -- Democracy's Family Values / Laura Janara -- Tocqueville And The Feminization Of The Bourgeoisie / Dana Villa -- A Family Resemblance : Tocqueville And Wollstonecraftian Protofeminism / Eileen Hunt Botting -- Aristocratic Mourning : Tocqueville, John Quincy Adams, And The Affairs Of Andrew Jackson / Jill Locke -- Sympathy, Equality, And Consent : Tocqueville And Harriet Martineau On Women And Democracy In America / Lisa Pace Vetter -- Tocqueville's American Woman And The True Conception Of Democratic Progress / Delba Winthrop -- Toward A Generative Theory Of Equality / Kathleen S. Sullivan -- Imperial Fathers And Favorite Sons : J.s. Mill, Alexis De Tocqueville, And Nineteenth-century Visions Of Empire / Richard Boyd -- Tocqueville, Black Writers, And American Ethnology : Rethinking The Foundations Of Whiteness Studies / Alvin B. Tillery, Jr. -- The Separate Spheres Paradox : Habitual Inattention And Democratic Citizenship / Jocelyn M. Boryczka -- Tocqueville's Authority : Feminism And Reform Between Government And Civil Society / Barbara Cruikshank -- Annotated Bibliography On Alexis De Tocqueville And Gender, Feminism, And Race / Christine Carey. Edited By Jill Locke And Eileen Hunt Botting. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [337]-351) And Index. This book moves beyond traditional readings of Alexis de Tocqueville (180559) and his relevance to contemporary democracy by emphasizing the relationship of his life and work to modern feminist thought. Within the resurgence of political interest in Tocqueville during the past two decades, especially in the United States, there has been significant scholarly attention to the place of gender, race, and colonialism in his work. This is the first edited volume to gather together a range of this creative scholarship. It reveals a tidal shift in the reception history of Tocqueville as a result of his serious engagement by feminist, gender, postcolonial, and critical race theorists. The volume highlights the expressly normative nature of Tocquevilles project, thus providing an overdue counterweight to the conventional understanding of Tocquevillean America as an actual place in time and history. By reading Tocqueville alongside the writings of early womens rights activists, ethnologists, critical race theorists, contemporary feminists, neoconservatives, and his French contemporaries, among others, this book produces a variety of Tocquevilles that unsettles the hegemonic view of his work. Seen as a philosophical source and a political authority for modern democracies since the publication of the twin volumes of Democracy in America (1835/1840), Tocqueville emerges from this collection as a vital interlocutor for democratic theorists confronting the power relations generated by intersections of gender, sexual, racial, class, ethnic, national, and colonial identities. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Jocelyn Boryczka, Richard Boyd, Christine Carey, Barbara Cruikshank, Laura Janara, Matthew Holbreich, Kathleen S. Sullivan, Alvin B. Tillery Jr., Lisa Pace Vetter, Dana Villa, Cheryl B. Welch, and Delba Winthrop. Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction: To Tocqueville and Beyond......Page 14 1. Beyond the Bon Menage: Tocqueville and the Paradox of Liberal Citoyennes......Page 32 2. Democracy’s Family Values ......Page 60 3. Tocqueville and the Feminization of the Bourgeoisie ......Page 84 4. A Family Resemblance: Tocqueville and Wollstonecraftian Protofeminism ......Page 112 5. Aristocratic Mourning: Tocqueville, John Quincy Adams, and the Affairs of Andrew Jackson ......Page 138 6. Sympathy, Equality, and Consent: Tocqueville and Harriet Martineau on Women and Democracy in America ......Page 164 7. Tocqueville’s American Woman and ‘‘The True Conception of Democratic Progress’’ ......Page 190 8. Toward a Generative Theory of Equality ......Page 212 9. Imperial Fathers and Favorite Sons: J. S. Mill, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Nineteenth-Century Visions of Empire ......Page 238 10. Tocqueville, Black Writers, and American Ethnology: Rethinking the Foundations of Whiteness Studies ......Page 266 11. The Separate Spheres Paradox: Habitual Inattention and Democratic Citizenship ......Page 294 12. Tocqueville’s Authority: Feminism and Reform ‘‘Between Government and Civil Society’’ ......Page 318 Annotated Bibliography on Alexis de Tocqueville and Gender, Feminism, and Race ......Page 350 Contributors ......Page 366 Index......Page 370 Back Cover......Page 382