Engendering Culture Paperback by Barbara Melosh

Product Details

• Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press (1991-09-17)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 312 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780874747218
• Item Weight: 911.74 grams
• Dimensions: 11.0 x 8.6 x 0.7 cm

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.

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.