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Product Identifiers

PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100385242417

ISBN-139780385242417

eBay Product ID (ePID)187819

Product Key Features

Book TitleFeminization of American Culture

Number of Pages528 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicFeminism & Feminist Theory, Women Authors, Subjects & Themes / Religion, Popular Culture, American / General, Women's Studies, Christianity / Calvinist

Publication Year1988

GenreLiterary Criticism, Religion, Social Science

AuthorAnn Douglas

Book SeriesThe Anchor Library of Sociology

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight13.9 Oz

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN87-024102

Dewey Edition20

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal810.9/9287/09034

SynopsisThe Feminization of American Cultureseeks to explain the values prevalent in today's popular culture by tracing them back to their roots in Victorian times. Feminist scholar Ann Douglas examines the best-selling novels and magazines of the day to show how women exploited their feminine image and idealized the very qualities that kept them powerless: timidity, piety, narcissism, and a disdain for competition. Here is a major rethinking of the American past with shocks of recognition for evervone today., 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."

LC Classification NumberPS152.D6 1988