The Feminization Of American Culture
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The Feminization Of American Culture
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Author : Ann Douglas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
The Feminization Of American Culture written by Ann Douglas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with American literature categories.
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.
The Feminization Of America
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Author : Elinor Lenz
language : en
Publisher: Tarcher
Release Date : 1986
The Feminization Of America written by Elinor Lenz and has been published by Tarcher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Social Science categories.
A speculation on the dramatic changes in American culture brought on by the fact that women are assuming more and more power in contemporary society.
The Feminization Of American Culture
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Author : Ann Douglas
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 1998-09-30
The Feminization Of American Culture written by Ann Douglas and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Feminization of American Culture seeks to explain the values prevalent in today's mass culture by tracing them back to their roots in the Victorian era.
Gender And Race In Antebellum Popular Culture
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Author : Sarah N. Roth
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-21
Gender And Race In Antebellum Popular Culture written by Sarah N. Roth and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-21 with History categories.
In the decades leading to the Civil War, popular conceptions of African American men shifted dramatically. The savage slave featured in 1830s' novels and stories gave way by the 1850s to the less-threatening humble black martyr. This radical reshaping of black masculinity in American culture occurred at the same time that the reading and writing of popular narratives were emerging as largely feminine enterprises. In a society where women wielded little official power, white female authors exalted white femininity, using narrative forms such as autobiographies, novels, short stories, visual images, and plays, by stressing differences that made white women appear superior to male slaves. This book argues that white women, as creators and consumers of popular culture media, played a pivotal role in the demasculinization of black men during the antebellum period, and consequently had a vital impact on the political landscape of antebellum and Civil War-era America through their powerful influence on popular culture.
Terrible Honesty
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Author : Ann Douglas
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 1996-01-31
Terrible Honesty written by Ann Douglas and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-31 with History categories.
Terrible Honesty is the biography of a decade, a portrait of the soul of a generation - based on the lives and work of more than a hundred men and women. In a strikingly original interpretation that brings the Jazz Age to life in a wholly new way, Ann Douglas arugues that when, after World War I, the United States began to assume the economic and political leadership of the West, New York became the heart of a daring and accomplished historical transformation.
Beyond The Feminization Thesis
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Author : Patrick Pasture
language : en
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Release Date : 2012
Beyond The Feminization Thesis written by Patrick Pasture and has been published by Leuven University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Religion categories.
Case studies upon the use of concepts like feminization and masculinization in relation to christianity. Since the 1970s the feminization thesis has become a powerful trope in the rewriting of the social history of Christendom. However, this 'thesis' has triggered some vehement debates, given that men have continued to dominate the churches, and the churches themselves have reacted to the association of religion and femininity, often formulated by their critics, by explicitly focusing their appeal to men. In this book the authors critically reflect upon the use of concepts like feminization and masculinization in relation to Christianity.
Gender And Morality In Anglo American Culture 1650 1800
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Author : Ruth H. Bloch
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-02-10
Gender And Morality In Anglo American Culture 1650 1800 written by Ruth H. Bloch and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-02-10 with Religion categories.
A collection of essays on the origins of Anglo-American conceptions of gender and morality. The volume illuminates the overarching theme by addressing a basic historical question: Why did the attitudes toward gender and family relations that we now consider traditional values emerge when they did?
The History Of Men
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Author : Michael S. Kimmel
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2012-02-01
The History Of Men written by Michael S. Kimmel and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-01 with Social Science categories.
In this collection, one of the world's leading scholars in the field of masculinity studies explores the historical construction of American and British masculinities. Tracing the emergence of American and British masculinities, the forms they have taken, and their development over time, Michael S. Kimmel analyzes the various ways that the ideology of masculinity—the cultural meaning of manhood—has been shaped by the course of historical events, and, in turn, how ideas about masculinity have also served to shape those historical events. He also considers newly emerging voices of previously marginalized groups such as women, the working class, people of color, gay men, and lesbians to explore the marginalized and de-centered notions of masculinity and the political processes and dynamics that have enabled this marginalization to occur.
Women And Equality
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Author : William Henry Chafe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 1978
Women And Equality written by William Henry Chafe and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with History categories.
Chafe's analysis of changing social patterns is both solid and imaginative in the best sense....His book will certainly increase our understanding of where we are going--and why.""--Elizabeth Janeway ""Adopted as required reading - tremendously popular with students - provokes lively debates.""--John Rhinehart, Riverside Community College ""A trenchant analysis of the underlying social and economic changes of the past century....Particularly insightful in analyzing the ways in which racial and sexual inequality are both similar and fundamentally different.""--Alice S. Rossi, University of Ma.
The Church Impotent
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Author : Leon J. Podles
language : en
Publisher: Spence Publishing Company
Release Date : 1999
The Church Impotent written by Leon J. Podles and has been published by Spence Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Masculinity categories.
The current preoccupation with the role of women in the church obscures the more serious problem of the perennial absence of men. This provocative book argues that Western churches have become women's clubs, that the emasculation of Christianity is dangerous for the church and society, and that a masculine presence can and must be restored.After documenting the highly feminized state of Western Christianity, Dr. Podles identifies the masculine traits that once characterized the Christian life but are now commonly considered incompatible with it. He contends that though masculinity has been marginalized within Christianity, it cannot be expunged from human society. If detached from Christianity, it reappears as a substitute religion, with unwholesome and even horrific consequences. The church, too, is diminished by its emasculation. Dr. Podles concludes by considering how Christianity's virility might be restored.In the otherwise stale and overworked field of gender studies, The Church Impotent is the only book to confront the lopsidedly feminine cast of modern Christianity with a profound analysis of its historical and sociological roots.