The Feminization of American Culture

by Ann Douglas

Paperback, 1998

Status

Available

Genres

Publication

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1998), 416 pages

Description

Author explores the alliance, beginning in 1820, of two disenfranchised groups: the women of the middle class and the liberal Protestant clergy, both increasingly relegated to the edges of society (to the parlor, to the Sunday School, to the libraries) by the prevailing entrepreneurial forces.

Subjects

Language

English

Original language

English

Physical description

416 p.; 5.5 inches

ISBN

0374525587 / 9780374525583

Local notes

feminisms

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