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Ann Douglas To PreachIn Christ Chapel Sunday“The Commercialism of clergy from the centers of power American Protestantism” will be in the early 1800’s, of the alliance the subject of a public lecture tobe delivered in Room 231 of theCollege Union Building at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, September 25, by Ann Douglas, women’s rights scholar and author of the recently published book, The Feminization of American Culture. Douglas will also deliver the sermon this Sunday in Christ Chapel at 10:45 a.m.Douglas will meet informally with twenty faculty members at the home of Chaplain Karl Mattson on Saturday night and with students at the College conference house after Sunday morning’s service. Discussion will be based on the historical aspects of contemporary male-female relationships.Douglas received her B.A. in English literature from Harvard College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and her Ph.D from Harvard University in 1970. She has studied Victorian literature at Linacre College in Oxford, England. From 1970 to 1974, she taught at Princeton University and is at present on the faculty at Columbia University.Douglas has published widely in the fields of American and women’s studies and currently serves on the editorial boards of Women’s Studies and American Quarterly. The Feminization of American Culture, her first book, has been critically acclaimed as one of the most important books in American cultural history in several years.In ner book Douglas tells of the removal of American women andthat developed between clergy and women, and of how that alliance led, almost unwittingly, to a consumer society and a sentimental culture.The New York Review of Books hailed Douglas’s book as a “brilliant effort to reinterpret the well recognized symbiosis of women and clergymen as the seedbed of modern mass culture and consumerism.” Douglas concentrated on thirty women and thirty liberal clergymen in her efforts toANN DOUGLASshow how a common fate existed between Victorian women and the liberal Protestant clergy in that they had “lost practical function within American society and were anxious to replace it with emotional indispensability.”Douglas describes the results of this process as a victory for “feeling” and “emotion” over reason,Continued on Page 3
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Fri, Sep 23, 1977
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