This book moves beyond traditional readings of Alexis de
Tocqueville (1805-59) and his relevance to contemporary democracy
by emphasizing the relationship of his life and work to modern
feminist thought. Within the resurgence of political interest in
Tocqueville during the past two decades, especially in the United
States, there has been significant scholarly attention to the place
of gender, race, and colonialism in his work. This is the first
edited volume to gather together a range of this creative
scholarship. It reveals a tidal shift in the reception history of
Tocqueville as a result of his serious engagement by feminist,
gender, postcolonial, and critical race theorists.
The volume highlights the expressly normative nature of
Tocqueville's project, thus providing an overdue counterweight to
the conventional understanding of Tocquevillean America as an
actual place in time and history. By reading Tocqueville alongside
the writings of early women's rights activists, ethnologists,
critical race theorists, contemporary feminists, neoconservatives,
and his French contemporaries, among others, this book produces a
variety of Tocquevilles that unsettles the hegemonic view of his
work.
Seen as a philosophical source and a political authority for
modern democracies since the publication of the twin volumes of
Democracy in America (1835/1840), Tocqueville emerges from this
collection as a vital interlocutor for democratic theorists
confronting the power relations generated by intersections of
gender, sexual, racial, class, ethnic, national, and colonial
identities.
In addition to the editors, the contributors are Jocelyn
Boryczka, Richard Boyd, Christine Carey, Barbara Cruikshank, Laura
Janara, Matthew Holbreich, Kathleen S. Sullivan, Alvin B. Tillery
Jr., Lisa Pace Vetter, Dana Villa, Cheryl B. Welch, and Delba
Winthrop.
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