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

by Barbara Melosh

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087474721X
• ISBN13: 9780874747218
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

the best

This is a fascinating interpretation of New Deal art--meticulously researched with extensive photos. I agree with Mike.

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