Tocqueville's American Woman and “The True Conception of Democratic Progress

For my part, I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman hardly leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And now that I come near the end of this book in which I have recorded so many considerable achievements of the Americans, if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the singular prosperity and growing power of this people, I should answer that it is due to the superiority of their women

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• Harriet Martineau

  Open Access•Susan Hoecker‐drysdale•The Wiley‐Blackwell Companion to…•2011

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• Tocqueville on human misery and human liberty

  Open Access•Peter Augustine Lawler•The Social Science Journal•1991

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• Tocqueville on Servants, Servitude, and Impersonal Domination

  Open Access•Dimitrios Halikias•The Review of Politics•2025

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• God, Woman, and Morality

  Open Access•William Mathie•The Review of Politics•1995

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• Tocqueville as Critical Race Theorist

  Open Access•A B Tillery•Political Research Quarterly•2009

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• Providential Partners? Tocqueville’s Take on Equality and Centralization

  Steven Pittz, Steven F Pittz•The Journal of Politics•2011

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• Revisiting Tocqueville’s American Woman

  Open Access•Christine Dunn Henderson•Political Theory•2023

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• Books that Matter. The Case of Tocqueville's Democracy in America

  F C Da Silva, Mónica Brito Vieira•Sociological Quarterly•2020

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