Feminist interpretations of Alexis de Tocqueville / edited by Jill Locke, Eileen Hunt Botting

Bibliogr. p. [337]-351

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.

"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.