Catherine A. Holland

The Body Politic

Foundings, Citizenship, and Difference in the American Political Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

This work advances an original thesis that challenges the dominant schools of thought concerning the liberal tradition in the US.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780415928588
• ISBN-10: 0415928583
• Artikelnr.: 21147498

Autorenporträt

Catherine Holland is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies at the University of Missouri.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Body Politic Part I: Foundings and the Problem of the
Past 1. Notes on the States of America: Jeffersonian Democracy and the
Production of a National Past 3. Becoming Unnatural: The Federalist's
Techniques of Government Part II: Reconstruction and Its Aftermath: The
Relocation of the Past 4. Sexual Reconstruction: Gender, Political
Friendship, and the New Techniques of Citizenship 5. In the Beginning Was a
Crime: Lynching, Rape, and the Tragedy of American Political Thought 6.
Postscript, Giving reasons: Rethinking Toleration for a Plural World