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