Women in International and Universal Exhibitions, 1876-1937

ISBN-13: 9780367884239 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 286 str.

Rebecca Rogers; Myriam Boussahba-Bravard

Opis

This book introduces women into the history of world fairs through a dialogue across disciplinary and national historiographies that challenges existing narratives. It shows the ways women engaged in these modern spaces, as artists, writers, collectors, philanthropists, workers or feminists at a moment when feminist movements were developing.

Spis treści

Introduction: Positioning Women in the World Fairs, 1876-1937  Myriam Boussahba-Bravard and Rebecca Rogers  Part I: Exhibiting Women: Collectors, Artists and Students  1. Expositions and Collections: Women Art Collectors and Patrons in the Age of the Great Expositions  Julie Verlaine  2. Unpretentious Paintings: Mexico’s National School of Fine Arts’ Women Students at the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition  Ursula Tania Estrada  3. Inserting the Personal in the International: The American Girl at the 1900 Paris Exposition  Linda Kim  Part II: Promoting Women: Professionals, Workers and Organizers  4. “After Mature Deliberation”: Women Lawyers’ Infiltration of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition  Gwen Jordan  5. International Expositions and the Rewriting of Portuguese Women’s History (1889-1908)  Teresa Pinto  6. A “Reason to Act, an Ideal to Strive Towards”: Women as Intellectual Organizers at the Paris Exhibition of 1900  Anne R. Epstein  Part III: Staging Otherness: Women on and from the Margins  7. African American Women’s Voices at the 1893 Chicago World Fair  Claudine Raynaud  8. Between Knowledge and Spectacle: Exotic Women at International Exhibitions (Paris, 1889 and 1900)  Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère  9. International Activism After the Fair: New South Wales, Utah, and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition  James Keating  Part IV: Mobilizing Women: National, International, and Transnational Feminism(s)  10. Rendezvous at the Expo: Building a Franco-American Women’s Network, 1889-1893-1900  Karen Offen  11. Forging the Transnational out of the International: Feminist Internationalism at World’s Fairs and International Exhibitions  Tracey Jean Boisseau

O autorze

Myriam Boussahba-Bravard is Professor of Nineteenth-Century British History in the English and American Studies faculty of Université Paris Diderot.

Rebecca Rogers is Professor in the Histoire of Education at the Université Paris Descartes.