Democracy growing up : authority, autonomy, and passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America /
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 opposi...
| Основен автор: | Janara, Laura, 1966- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
℗♭2002.
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| Серия: |
SUNY series in political theory. Contemporary issues.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=103150 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Democracy growing up. |
| Резюме: |
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. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (x, 256 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index. |
| ISBN: |
0585489270 9780585489278 079145441X 9780791454411 0791454428 9780791454428 9780791488362 0791488365 |