{"product_id":"suspect-citizens-9781439908945","title":"Suspect Citizens","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA groundbreaking study of how concepts of virtue and vice are used to deny American women full political rights\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Boryczka addresses categories of virtue and vice that operate to render women 'suspect citizens' in the American political script... The book contains many interesting and provocative juxtapositions. Summing Up: Highly recommended.\"--Choice, May 2013 \"Suspect Citizens is a rich conceptual history tracing the binary opposition between virtue and vice that has structured the gendered nature of citizenship in American political thought... The book successfully weaves together contemporary political issues with their deep and direct roots in historical political ideas and debates.\"--New Political Science, Vol. 35, Issue 2 \"Throughout her analysis the author succeeds in identifying the emergence of the virtue and vice concept, its relation to other theoretical concepts and political arguments, and how the concept is used by political actors to achieve their political goals. This book is necessary reading for anyone interested in political and feminist theories.\" - Contemporary Sociology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Introduction: Moral Guardians but Suspect Citizens: Women, Virtue, and Vice in the Western Political Imaginary      Defining Virtue and Vice      Virtue and Vice in Contemporary Political Theory: Displacing Women and Politics      Methodological Matters      The Plan of the Book  1 | Conceptual Locations: Where Virtue, Vice, and Citizenship Intersect      Virtue and Vice in Ancient and Medieval Western Political Thought      Modern Theoretical Groundings: Alexis de Tocqueville and Mary Wollstonecraft in America      Suspect Citizenship: At the Intersection of Morality and Politics  2 | The Religious Roots of Moral Guardianship: American Women as the Daughters of Eve and Zion      The Puritan Point of Emergence: Infinite and Finite Virtue and Vce      The Infinite as a Necessary Problem: Mary Daly's Gyn\/Ecology and Pure Lust      Martyrs for Democracy: The Sacred, Profane, and Double Burden of Moral Responsibility  3 | \"Back to Virtue\" Backlash Politics: Privileging Irresponsibility      Debating Women's Education and Moral Guardianship in the Republican Era      Debating Contemporary Sex Education: Resurrecting the Daughters of Eve and Zion      Scapegoats for Democracy: Trust, Blame, and Irresponsibility in American Citizenship  4 | Suspect Citizenship: From Lowell Mill Girls to Lesbian Feminists and Sadomasochism       Lowell Mill Girl Debates: The Trap of True Womanhood      The Rebels: Weakening the Bonds of Virtue      Lesbian Feminist S\/M Debates: The Moral Bondage of Moral Guardianship      Fantasy and Imagination in Lesbian S\/M and Contemporary Feminist Ethics      Suspect Citizens as Innovative Ideologists  5 | \"Ozzie and Harriet\" Morality: Resetting Liberal Democracy's Moral Compass      The Separate Spheres Paradox: Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America      A \"Curl Back\" to Virtue: Neutralizing Gender in Contemporary Morality       Habitual Inattention to Democracy: The Power of Vice  6 | The Legacy of Virtue and Vice: Mary Wollstonecraft and Contemporary Feminist Care Ethics      Sex, Sexuality, and Suspicion in Mary Wollstonecraft's Political Thought      Moral Perfectionism in Feminist Care Ethics: The Problems of Infinite Virtue, Patriarchal Moral Standards, and Omitting Vice      Parochialism: Practice and the Limits of Finite Virtues      The Vice of Omission: Sex and Sexuality in Feminist Care Ethics  Conclusion: Beyond Virtue and Vice: Toward a Democratic Feminist Ethics      The Frontiers of Collective Responsibility: Toward a Democratic Feminist Ethics of Belonging  Notes References Index","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408306053463,"sku":"9781439908945","price":20.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439908945.jpg?v=1730502372","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/suspect-citizens-9781439908945","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}