Documents tagged with ann douglas

Be a Man---Allen M. Baker

Ann Douglas, the feminist Harvard professor, in her book, The Feminization of the American Culture has observed that by the late 18th century America was jettisoning her God-centered, strong, objec...
  • hcesquivel8903 published this 08 / 17 / 2009
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Moderns and Their Mothers' Reach: Returning to the Empowered Mother, in Tennessee Williams' Cat on

In Terrible Honesty, Ann Douglas argues that moderns felt they needed to find a way to free themselves from their Victorian predecessors, and discusses how the cultural products of the modern perio...
  • Patrick McEvoy-Halston published this 07 / 01 / 2008
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