Democracy Growing Up

Laura Janara is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia.

• Acknowledgments INTRODUCTION 1. "THE KEY TO ALMOST THE WHOLE WORK" French and U.S. DiscourseInterpreting Tocqueville's Imagery: A Psychoanalytic FrameworkWhat Tocqueville Fears: Democracy's Three PotentialitiesThe AbyssInterpreting Tocquevilles' Imagery: Tocqueville in HistoryDinnerstein's Theory and Tocqueville's DemocracyDiagnosing the Democratic Psyche 2. GENEALOGY, BIRTH, AND GROWTH Democracy in France: Urchin OrphanDemocracy in America: Wilderness ExpectingSaginaw: A Scarcely Formed EmbryoMother EnglandResisting the Mother: Democracy as Adolescent 3. ADOLESCENCE AND MATURITY AdolescenceManliness or Individualism?Democracy in SchoolPassion for Equality's CharmsReligion, Mores, Morality: Female Bulwark for MaturityDemocratic Maturity? 4. HOMO PUER ROBUSTUS: PROPERTY, COMMERCE, INDUSTRY The Impulse for EnterpriseAnxiety and Unsated DesireExploiting the Land, Fearing the Flesh, Ennobling MoneyMoney, Marriage, and Manly CitizenshipMiddle Class Desire and the Stilling of PoliticsWorkers, Owners, and the Veil of ContractThe State as Parent 5. IMPOTENCE AND INFANTILISM Hypermasculine IndividualismPublic Opinion: Elle mène le mondeFemale Administration: Male GovernmentThe Guardian StateInfantilism and Impotence 6. DEMOCRACY'S FAMILY VALUES Democracy as Self-Mastery: Fathers, Sons, and BrothersGirls: Democracy's Shadow FiguresFear and Desire: Containing the American WomanMarriage and Sex: Resurrecting OrderDemocracy's Gender and Family Foundations CONCLUSION: FAMILY, GENDER, AND DEMOCRATIC MATURITY Notes Bibliography Index

"Janara … provides us with a key to Tocqueville's subconscious thoughts based on his language, which is rich in the imagery of familial and gender relationships. She does this in a nuanced, original and convincing way." — Perspectives on Politics"Democracy Growing Up consistently illuminates the hitherto undiscussed gender structure and entailments of Tocqueville's commentaries and has lots of surprising things to say on other specific aspects of his thought. It is a provocative and substantial contribution to the literature on Tocqueville." — Mark T. Reinhardt, Williams College