Engendering Culture(English, Paperback, Melosh Barbara)

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Engendering Culture(English, Paperback, Melosh Barbara) is written by Melosh Barbara and published by Smithsonian Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 087474721X (ISBN 10) and 9780874747218 (ISBN 13).

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.