The Feminization of American Culture - Brossura

Douglas, A

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ISBN 10: 0333654218 ISBN 13: 9780333654217

Casa editrice: Macmillan, 1996

Riassunto

The Feminization of American Culture is a significant study of the domination of late nineteenth-century American culture by a feminine ethic and spirit. As religion lost its hold on the public mind, clergymen and educated women, powerless in the male-dominated industrial society, banded together to have a profound effect on the only areas still open to their influence - the arts and literature. Ann Douglas explores their impact on 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. The result was a far-reaching social preoccupation with banal melodrama which failed to address the real issues of the day. This is a major, polemical rethinking of the American past which seeks to explain values prevalent in today's popular culture by tracing them back to their roots in Victorian times.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Macmillan
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0333654218
• ISBN 13: 9780333654217
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 416