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Feminist interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville
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Feminist interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville

Author: Jill Locke; Eileen Hunt Botting
Publisher: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2009.
Series: Re-reading the canon.
Edition/Format:   eBook : Document : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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.
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
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Feminist interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville.
University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009
(DLC) 2008024583
(OCoLC)232536684
Named Person: Alexis de Tocqueville
Material Type: Document, Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Jill Locke; Eileen Hunt Botting
ISBN: 9780271036038 0271036036
OCLC Number: 402357262
Description: 1 online resource (ix, 367 p.)
Contents: 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.
Series Title: Re-reading the canon.
Responsibility: edited by Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting.

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"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.

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