Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and Theater

Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and Theater

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Author/Contributor(s): Melosh, Barbara
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
Date: 9/17/1991
Binding: Paperback
Condition: NEW
Using the iconography of New Deal murals and plays to interpret the cultural history of the 1930s, Engendering Culture demonstrates that the visual and dramatic images of each form contain an underlying vocabulary of gender: a stock of commonly used poses, subjects, settings, and dramatic roles that encode recognizable characteristics of manhood and womanhood.