Suspect Citizens

What drives the cycle of backlashes against women's on-going struggle for equality, freedom, and inclusion in American politics? In her innovative and provocative book, Suspect Citizens, Jocelyn Boryczka presents a feminist conceptual history that shows how American politics have largely defined women in terms of their reproductive and socializing functions. This moral framework not only denies women full citizenship, but also devalues the active political engagement of all citizens who hold each other and their government under suspicion. Using the gendered notions of virtue and vice, Boryczka exposes the paradox of how women are perceived as virtuous moral guardians and vice-ridden suspect citizens capable of jeopardizing the entire nation's exceptional future. Shifting from virtue and vice to a democratic feminist ethics, Suspect Citizensadvances a politics of collective responsibility and belonging.

Jocelyn M. Boryczka is Associate Professor of Politics at Fairfield University.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction: Moral Guardians but Suspect Citizens: Women, Virtue, and Vice in the Western Political Imaginary	p. 1
Defining Virtue and Vice	p. 7
Virtue and Vice in Contemporary Political Theory: Displacing Women and Politics	p. 11
Methodological Matters	p. 17
The Plan of the Book	p. 19
Conceptual Locations: Where Virtue, Vice, and Citizenship Intersect	p. 26
Virtue and Vice in Ancient and Medieval Western Political Thought	p. 27
Modern Theoretical Groundings: Alexis de Tocqueville and Mary Wollstonecraft in America	p. 30
Suspect Citizenship: At the Intersection of Morality and Politics	p. 39
The Religious Roots of Moral Guardianship: American Women as the Daughters of Eve and Zion	p. 44
The Puritan Point of Emergence: Infinite and Finite Virtue and Vice	p. 48
The Infinite as a Necessary Problem: Mary Daly's Gyn/Ecology and Pure Lust	p. 58
Martyrs for Democracy: The Sacred, Profane, and Double Burden of Moral Responsibility	p. 63
"Back to Virtue" Backlash Politics: Privileging Irresponsibility	p. 65
Debating Women's Education and Moral Guardianship in the Republican Era	p. 69
Debating Contemporary Sex Education: Resurrecting the Daughters of Eve and Zion	p. 77
Scapegoats for Democracy: Trust, Blame, and Irresponsibility in American Citizenship	p. 85
Suspect Citizenship: From Lowell Mill Girls to Lesbian Feminists and Sadomasochism	p. 88
Lowell Mill Girl Debates: The Trap of True Womanhood	p. 91
The Rebels: Weakening the Bonds of Virtue	p. 96
Lesbian Feminist S/M Debates: The Moral Bondage of Moral Guardianship	p. 100
Fantasy and Imagination in Lesbian S/M and Contemporary Feminist Ethics	p. 107
Suspect Citizens as Innovative Ideologists	p. 112
"Ozzie and Harriet" Morality: Resetting Liberal Democracy's Moral Compass	p. 115
The Separate Spheres Paradox: Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America	p. 118
A "Curl Back" to Virtue: Neutralizing Gender in Contemporary Morality	p. 127
Habitual Inattention to Democracy: The Power of Vice	p. 135
The Legacy of Virtue and Vice: Mary Wollstonecraft and Contemporary Feminist Care Ethics	p. 139
Sex, Sexuality, and Suspicion in Mary Wollstonecraft's Political Thought	p. 143
Moral Perfectionism in Feminist Care Ethics: The Problems of Infinite Virtue, Patriarchal Moral Standards, and Omitting Vice	p. 148
Parochialism: Practice and the Limits of Finite Virtues	p. 151
The Vice of Omission: Sex and Sexuality in Feminist Care Ethics	p. 156
Conclusion: Beyond Virtue and Vice: Toward a Democratic Feminist Ethics	p. 161
The Frontiers of Collective Responsibility: Toward a Democratic Feminist Ethics of Belonging	p. 164
Notes	p. 175
References	p. 185
Index	p. 195
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