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The Feminization of American Culture Paperback - 1998

by Ann Douglas


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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.

This new paperback edition, with a new Preface, will reach yet more readers with its persuasive and provocative theory. Richard Bernstein of The New York Times said: "Her remarkable scholarship is going to set the standard for a long time to come."

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  • Title The Feminization of American Culture
  • Author Ann Douglas
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, New York
  • Date 1998-09-30
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780374525583 / 0374525587
  • Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.74 x 6.18 x 1.02 in (22.20 x 15.70 x 2.59 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects American literature - 19th century - History, Popular culture - United States - History -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 98016732
  • Dewey Decimal Code 810.992

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Citations

  • New York Times, 04/04/1999, Page 24

About the author

Ann Douglas, author of Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s, has taught American studies at Harvard, Princeton, and Columbia, where she is now Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature. She lives in New York City.

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