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

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pp. xiii 297.”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.”

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ISBN 087474721x
Published Date 1991
Book Condition Very Good
Jacket Condition Paperback
Binding Softcover
Size 8vo Larger
Place of Publication Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
Edition Second Impression
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pp. xiii 297.”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.”

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Weight 0.85 kg