Engendering culture: manhood and womanhood in new deal public art and theater
Auteur :
Melosh, Barbara
Éditeur :
Melosh, Barbara
ISBN :
9780874747218
Date de publication :
17 sept. 1991
Dimensions :
27,8 x 21,7 x 1,8 cm
Poids :
917 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.