Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: To Tocqueville and Beyond
Jill Locke and Eileen Hunt Botting
1. Beyond the Bon Ménage: Tocqueville and the Paradox of Liberal Citoyennes
Cheryl B. Welch
2. Democracy’s Family Values
Laura Janara
3. Tocqueville and the Feminization of the Bourgeoisie
Dana Villa
4. A Family Resemblance: Tocqueville and Wollstonecraftian Protofeminism
Eileen Hunt Botting
5. Aristocratic Mourning: Tocqueville, John Quincy Adams, and the Affairs of Andrew Jackson
Jill Locke
6. Sympathy, Equality, and Consent: Tocqueville and Harriet Martineau on Women and Democracy in America
Lisa Pace Vetter
7. Tocqueville’s American Woman and “The True Conception of Democratic Progress.”
Delba Winthrop
8. Toward a Generative Theory of Equality
Kathleen S. Sullivan
9. Imperial Fathers and Favorite Sons: J. S. Mill, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Nineteenth-Century Visions of Empire
Richard Boyd
10. Tocqueville, Black Writers, and American Ethnology: Rethinking the Foundations of Whiteness Studies
Alvin B. Tillery Jr.
11. The Separate Spheres Paradox: Habitual Inattention and Democratic Citizenship
Jocelyn M. Boryczka
12. 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
Contributors
Index