The Feminization of American Culture
6 best books like The Feminization of American Culture (Ann Douglas): Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers, The Works of Anne Bradstreet (John Harvard Library), The Oxford Book of American Poetry, Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835, Samantha's Boxed Set
Witches, Midwives and Nurses: A History of Women Healers
| Author | Barbara Ehrenreich |
| ISBN | 0912670134 |
Women have always been healers, and medicine has always been an arena of struggle between female practitioners and male professionals. This pamphlet explores two important phases in the male takeover of health care: the suppression of witches in medieval Europe and the rise of the male medical...
Anne Bradstreet, the first true poet in the American colonies, wrote at a time and in a place where any literary creation was rare and difficult and that of a woman more unusual still. Born in England and brought up in the household of the Earl of Lincoln where her father, Thomas Dudley, was steward, Anne...
Here is the eagerly awaited new edition of The Oxford Book of American Poetry brought completely up to date and dramatically expanded by poet David Lehman. It is a rich, capacious volume, featuring the work of more than 200 poets-almost three times as many as the 1976 edition. With a succinct and often...
| Author | Henry Nash Smith |
| ISBN | 0674939557 |
The spell that the West has always exercised on the American people had its most intense impact on American literature and thought during the nineteenth century. Henry Nash Smith shows, with vast comprehension, the influence of the nineteenth-century West in all its variety and strength, in special...
The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835
| Author | Nancy F. Cott |
| ISBN | 0300072988 |
This twentieth anniversary edition of Nancy F. Cott’s acclaimed study includes a new preface in which Cott assesses her own and other historian’s development of the concept of domesticity from the 1970s to the 1990s.
“Nancy Cott’s Bonds of Womanhood is not just a pioneer...
| Author | Valerie Tripp |
| ISBN | 0937295779 |
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I loved the American Girls series so much when I was a little girl. These books helped me experience life in America through a little girl’s eyes through multiple decades. These books have been reprinted and renamed the BeForever series, but I was fortunate...
