Women, Family, and Democratic Mores

From Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville
Tocqueville attributes American prosperity and strength largely to the superiority of American women and the transformation of the family from a patriarchal hierarchy into a relationship of equals.
Volume 2, Part 3, Chapters 8-12

Chapters on the family, education of girls, marriage, and the young woman as wife — concludes that the superiority of American women is the chief cause of American greatness.

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