{"product_id":"the-feminization-of-american-culture-ann-douglas-9780374525583","title":"The Feminization of American Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new paperback edition, with a new Preface, will reach yet more readers with its persuasive and provocative theory. Richard Bernstein of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003esaid: \"Her remarkable scholarship is going to set the standard for a long time to come.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ann Douglas\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374525587\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374525583\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.74h x 6.18w x 1.02d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/04\/1999 pg. 24","brand":"Ann Douglas","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946555900159,"sku":"9780374525583","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0edfc335-04f9-461a-a84d-c7d7e6cf11f9.jpg?v=1681513820","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-feminization-of-american-culture-ann-douglas-9780374525583","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}