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A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 0385242417
- EAN
- 9780385242417
- Publication Name
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- Type
- Paperback
- Release Title
- The Feminization of American Culture (The Anchor Library of So...
- Artist
- Douglas, Ann
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0385242417
ISBN-13
9780385242417
eBay Product ID (ePID)
187819
Product Key Features
Book Title
Feminization of American Culture
Number of Pages
528 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Feminism & Feminist Theory, Women Authors, Subjects & Themes / Religion, Popular Culture, American / General, Women's Studies, Christianity / Calvinist
Publication Year
1988
Genre
Literary Criticism, Religion, Social Science
Book Series
The Anchor Library of Sociology
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
13.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
87-024102
Dewey Edition
20
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
810.9/9287/09034
Synopsis
The 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 Number
PS152.D6 1988
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