Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 1. It Can't Happen Here: Failed Men and Spirited Women Chapter 3 2. The Domesticated Frontier: The Comradely Ideal as Pioneer Democracy Chapter 4 3. The Farm Family: The Comradely Ideal as Idyll and Expose Chapter 5 4. Manly Work Chapter 6 5. Masculine Expertise: Science and Technology Chapter 7 6. "The Women Shall Save Us": Antiwar Art and Drama Chapter 8 7. Youth: Emergent Manhood and Womanhood Chapter 9 8. Sex and Shopping: Critiques of Leisure and Consumption Chapter 10 9. Women, Art, and Ideology Chapter 11 10. Conclusion Chapter 12 Appendix: Inventory of Section Murals and Sculptures
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.
I know of no other study that gives us a greater sense of grassroots response to the projects of the New Deal... This is an exceedingly well-written, impressively researched, persuasively argued book with many original and stimulating things to say. -- Lawrence L. Levine, Margaret Byrne Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley Deeply researched and fascinating to read, Engendering Culture proves Barbara Melosh to be one of the most talented and imaginative feminist historians at work today. -- Nancy F. Cott, Department of History, Yale University
I know of no other study that gives us a greater sense of grassroots response to the projects of the New Deal... This is an exceedingly well-written, impressively researched, persuasively argued book with many original and stimulating things to say. -- Lawrence L. Levine, Margaret Byrne Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley Deeply researched and fascinating to read, Engendering Culture proves Barbara Melosh to be one of the most talented and imaginative feminist historians at work today. -- Nancy F. Cott, Department of History, Yale University
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