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

Brand: Smithsonian Press

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UPC:
9780874747218
Maximum Purchase:
2 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
1991-09-17
Release Date:
1991-09-17
Author:
Barbara Melosh
Language:
english
Edition:
2nd prt.
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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.