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

Abstract

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.