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Democracy Growing Up: Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2005

Leslie D. Feldman
Leslie D. Feldman
Affiliation:
Hofstra University
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Democracy Growing Up: Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America. By Laura Janara. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. 256p. $75.50 cloth, $25.95 paper.

A professor used to remark that “you can say that Hobbes is about dairy farming if you back it up.” Laura Janara writes that Tocqueville's Democracy in America is about embryology, the feminine and masculine, gestation, birth, and gender relations, and she backs it up.

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BOOK REVIEWS: POLITICAL THEORY
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , December 2005 , pp. 877
Copyright
© 2005 American Political Science Association

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