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1 online resource (x, 256 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues
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SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index. |
| Summary |
In this feminist reading of Tocqueville's famous Democracy in America, Janara (political science, U. of British Columbia) explores the familial and gendered imagery used in the text to discuss American democracy. She argues that a feminized image of stable aristocratic order is placed in opposition to an image of democracy as maleness, flux, indeterminancy. Furthermore, American democracy is symbolized in the Tocqueville's text as a "growing child-subject" achieving maturity away from a maternalized aristocracy as opposed to the French revolution which is portrayed as having had to commit matricide in order to be born. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859. De la démocratie en Amérique.
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Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859. |
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De la démocratie en Amérique (Tocqueville, Alexis de) |
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United States -- Politics and government.
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United States. |
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Politics and government. |
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United States -- Social conditions -- To 1865.
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1865 |
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Autonomy (Psychology)
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Autonomy (Psychology) |
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Gender identity.
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Gender identity. |
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Electronic books.
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Gender identity. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Janara, Laura, 1966- Democracy growing up. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2002 079145441X 0791454428 (DLC) 2002017610 (OCoLC)48803550 |
| ISBN |
0585489270 (electronic book) |
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9780585489278 (electronic book) |
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079145441X (alkaline paper) |
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9780791454411 (alkaline paper) |
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0791454428 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780791454428 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780791488362 (ebook) |
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0791488365 (ebook) |
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