Women, art and the New Deal /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Adams, Katherine H., 1954- (Author), Keene, Michael L. (Author)
Corporate Author:	EBSCOhost
Format:	Government Document eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2016]
Subjects:	Women artists > United States > Social conditions > 20th century. Women in art. New Deal, 1933-1939. Art and society > United States > History > 20th century. United States > Social conditions > 1933-1945. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

New deal documentary
Women, documentary, the depression, adn the New Deal : a convergence beyond conventional wisdom
The individual art programs, the women involved
Portraits of modern women alone and together : face forward, standing on new ground
Beyond portraits to personification : classical imagery transformed in public images of women
Specific themes developed : selling beauty and sexuality
Moving into romantic relationships : the uncetainties of the new
American marriage, and divorce
Coping in a world of violence : the creation of the modern female folk hero
Reproductive rights and motherhood
Race and class, and gender
Women at work
And the subject of age.