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The Feminization of American Culture
by Ann Douglas
ISBN: 0374525587
ISBN-13: 9780374525583
Format: Paperback
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"Admirably doumented and ambitious....[The] examination of the perils of sentimentalism and the legacy it bequeathed modern culture is excellent."
-- Newsweek
"A feminist work in the best sense of that word; its author laments the violence done in the name of gender to both men and women...A responsible and passionate act of scholarship."
-- Atlantic Monthly
"'The Feminization of American Culture'...[combines] an overview of sentimental fiction written by and for middle-class ladies with an examination of liberal Protestant clergymen in the last half of the nineteenth century." -- Robert M. Adams
-- New York Review of Books
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published date: 1998
Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 1.1 pounds
Pages: 403
Publisher's Notes
This modern classic by one of our leading scholars seeks to explain the values prevalent in today's mass culture by tracing them back to their roots in the Victorian era. As religion lost its hold on the public mind, clergymen and educated women, powerless and insignificant in the society of the time, together exerted a profound effect on the only areas open to their influence: the arts and literature. Women wrote books that idealized the very qualities that kept them powerless: timidity, piety, and a disdain for competition. Sentimental values that permeated popular literature continue to influence modern culture, preoccupied as it is with glamour, banal melodrama, and mindless consumption.
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The Feminization of American Culture
Ann Douglas
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998-09-30. Paperback. Good. Some shelf wear to edges of cover, a small stain of first couple of pages, otherwise great. ( more information) Offered by AimeesBooks (United States)
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FEMINIZATION OF AMERICAN CULTURE
Douglas, Ann
New York: The Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1998) 404 pp. Original white wraps w/ modest edge wear. Previous owner's last name on front blank endpaper. Contents nice.. Soft Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ( more information) Offered by Shoemaker Booksellers (United States)
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The Feminization of American Culture (Qty: 5)
Ann Douglas
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Ann Douglas
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