Global Voices from the Women's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition: Feminisms, Transnationalism and the Archive

ISBN-13: 9783031424892 / Angielski

Marija Dalbello; Sarah Wadsworth

Spis treści

Introduction; Marija Dalbello and Sarah Wadsworth.- PART I: READING (ACROSS) NATIONAL COLLECTIONS.- 1. A Structural Reading of European Books, Arts, and Handicrafts in the Woman’s Building Library; Marija Dalbello and Anselm Spoerri.- 2. 'Across the Sea': The Woman’s Building Library and Its Italian Books Collection; Silvia Valisa.- 3. The Swedish Contribution to the Woman’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition; Johanna McElwee.- 4. Spanish Lessons; Noël Valis.- PART II: GENDER AND MODERNISM.- 5. Folk Pastiche as Counter-Modernism: Challenging the Distance Between Core and Periphery in Central European Collections; Marija Dalbello.- 6. How to Be a German Girl: Mixed Messages at the Columbian Exhibition, 1893; Lynne Tatlock.- 7. The New Woman in the White City: Fin-de-siècle British Writing in the Woman’s Building Library; Sarah Wadsworth.- 8. Maintaining Norwegian Womanhood in the New World: Constructing National Identity through Literature at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition; Marianne Martens.- PART III: CLOSE READINGS.- 9. Fatima Aliye’s Invisible Authorship: Challenging Orientalism and Patriarchy; Enaya Othman.- 10. Commodified Womanhood: British/Indian Transcultural Engagement in the Woman’s Building Library; Jackielee Derks.- 11. From Private Lives to Public Spaces: Nineteenth-Century Peruvian Eclecticism at the Chicago’s World Fair; Elena González-Muntaner.

O autorze

Marija Dalbello is Professor at Rutgers University, USA.

Sarah Wadsworth is Professor at Marquette University, USA.

Blurb

Long recognized as a cultural watershed and touchstone of modernity, the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (World’s Columbian Exposition) was the site of the first large-scale international library of writing by women. The result of years of planning and cooperation by women’s organizations in twenty-four countries from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the library of the Woman’s Building contained more than 8,000 volumes, with more than 3,000 from countries other than the United States. This book collects the work of feminist scholars specializing in different national traditions and transnational comparative analysis and focuses on the contributions of the international (non-US) women’s committees to extend our understanding of women’s contribution to global print culture and the extension of women's rights up to 1893.

Marija Dalbello is Professor at Rutgers University, USA.

Sarah Wadsworth is Professor at Marquette University, USA.