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Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in the New Deal Public Art and Theater
by Barbara Melosh
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- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good/Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 087474721X
- ISBN 13
- 9780874747218
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Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Washington, D.C., U.S.A.: Smithsonian Inst Scholarly Pr, 1991. Second Impression. Softcover. Very Good/Paperback. 8vo Larger. 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…
Synopsis
Barbara Melosh is a professor of English and Study of the Americas at George Mason University. She is the author of "The Physician's Hand: Work, Culture, and Conflict in American Nursing.
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- Bookseller
- The Edmonton Book Store
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 119260
- Title
- Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in the New Deal Public Art and Theater
- Author
- Barbara Melosh
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Paperback
- Edition
- Second Impression
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 087474721X
- ISBN 13
- 9780874747218
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Inst Scholarly Pr
- Place of Publication
- Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1991
- Size
- 8vo Larger
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