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Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in the New Deal Public Art and
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Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in the New Deal Public Art and Theater Softcover - 1991

by Barbara Melosh

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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…
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  • Title Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in the New Deal Public Art and Theater
  • Author Barbara Melosh
  • Binding Softcover
  • Edition Second Impression
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Smithsonian Inst Scholarly Pr, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.
  • Date 1991
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 119260
  • ISBN 9780874747218 / 087474721X
  • Weight 2 lbs (0.91 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.93 x 8.53 x 0.77 in (27.76 x 21.67 x 1.96 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Women in art, Arts, American
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 90-9948
  • Dewey Decimal Code 700.973

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From the publisher

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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In this earnest and well-researched book, Melosh examines the visual politics of two New Deal art programs. The Treasury Section of Fine Arts funded murals and sculpture in public buildings and is often confused with the larger Federal Arts Project of the Work Projects Adminstration (WPA). Both programs created a set of cultural images rooted in the paternal liberalism of the times, and Melosh examines dozens of artworks as subtle or overt conveyors of sexual and racial symbolism. With its small illustrations, extensive notes, and somewhat spare analysis, this book will be of most interest to academics. (From Library Journal; David McClelland, Temple Univ. Lib., Philadelphia; Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.)

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)

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)

About the author

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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