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Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood In New Deal Public Art and Theater
de Melosh, Barbara
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. xiii, 297 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely "Using the iconography of New Deal murals and plays to interpret the cultural history of the 1930s, this work 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 characteristics of manhood and womanhood." - Publisher. CONTENTS: It can't happen here: failed men and spirited women; The domesticated frontier: the comradely ideal as pioneer democracy; The farm family: the comradely ideal as Idyll and expose; Manly work; Masculine expertise: science and technology; "The women shall save us": antiwar art and drama; Youth: emergent manhood and womanhood; Sex and shopping: critiques of leisure and consumption; Women, art, and ideology; Conclusion.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.
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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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- Título
- Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood In New Deal Public Art and Theater
- Autor
- Melosh, Barbara
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- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- ISBN 10
- 087474721X
- ISBN 13
- 9780874747218
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- Smithsonian Institution Press
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- Washington D.C.
- Fecha de publicación
- 1991
- Tamaño
- 4to
- Catálogos del vendedor
- American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945; Media / Frescoes & Murals; Patronage / State & Government;
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