Engendering culture

By Barbara Melosh

Subjects: Arts, united states, Federal Theatre Project, Men in art, American Arts, Federal art project, Federal Art Project, Women in art, Federal theater project, Federal Theatre Project (U.S.), Social realism

Description: 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.