Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and Theater
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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"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This is a fascinating interpretation of New Deal art--meticulously researched with extensive photos. I agree with Mike.
THIS BOOK ROCKS
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
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