New Directions in American Art

Manhood and Womanhood in New Deal Public Art and Theater

By: Barbara Melosh

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Paperback | 17 September 1991

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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.

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I know of no other study that gives us a greater sense of grassroots response to the projects of the New Deal... This is an exceedingly well-written, impressively researched, persuasively argued book with many original and stimulating things to say. -- Lawrence L. Levine, Margaret Byrne Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley Deeply researched and fascinating to read, Engendering Culture proves Barbara Melosh to be one of the most talented and imaginative feminist historians at work today. -- Nancy F. Cott, Department of History, Yale University

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