Rogers / Boussahba-Bravard Women in International and Universal Exhibitions, 1876-1937

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-76733-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 28, 300 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Research in Gender and History

This book argues for the importance of bringing women and gender more directly into the dynamic field of exposition studies. Reclaiming women for the history of world fairs (1876-1937), it also seeks to introduce new voices into these studies, dialoguing across disciplinary and national historiographies.

From the outset, women participated not only as spectators, but also as artists, writers, educators, artisans and workers, without figuring among the organizers of international exhibitions until the 20th century. Their presence became more pointedly acknowledged as feminist movements developed within the Western World and specific spaces dedicated to women’s achievements emerged.

International exhibitions emerged as showcases of "modernity" and "progress," but also as windows onto the foreign, the different, the unexpected and the spectacular. As public rituals of celebration, they transposed national ceremonies and protests onto an international stage. For spectators, exhibitions brought the world home; for organizers, the entire world was a fair.

Women were actors and writers of the fair narrative, although acknowledgment of their contribution was uneven and often ephemeral. Uncovering such silence highlights how gendered the triumphant history of modernity was, and reveals the ways women as a category engaged with modern life within that quintessential modern space—the world fair.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rogers, Rebecca

Boussahba-Bravard, Myriam

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

[Myriam Boussahba-Bravard and Rebecca Rogers]

Part I: Coming on Stage: Building Professional Opportunities Through Work and Art

1. International Ambitions: Women Collectors at the Fairs (1876-1937)

[Julie Verlaine]

2. Unpretentious Paintings: The First Women Students of Mexico’s National School of Fine Arts Show Their Work at the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition

[Ursula Estrada]

3. Portuguese Women and Industrial Schools in Exhibitions Between 1889 and 1908

[Teresa Pinto]

4. “The American Girl”: American Women and Nativism at the 1900 Paris International Exposition

[Linda Kim]

5. Between Social Science, Education, and Politics: Women as Intellectual Organizers at the Paris Exposition of 1900

[Anne Epstein]

Part II: Speaking Back?: Race and Empire at the Fairs

6. Victoria’s Fair Daughters in the Colonies: The Imperial Politics of Ladies’ Courts at International Exhibitions in Australia and India in the Late Nineteenth Century

[Renate Dohmen]

7. Exoticism and Role Playing: Indigenous Women in the International Exhibitions

[Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère]

8. Colored Women's Voices at the 1893 Chicago World Fair: Representation, Lynching and Intersectionality

[Claudine Raynaud]

Part III: Acting Out: National and International Feminism

9. "After Mature Deliberation": Women Lawyers' Infiltration of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition

[Gwen Jordan]

10. Margaret Windeyer and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition: Travel and the Limits of Transnational Feminism in the Late Nineteenth

[James Keating]

11. Rendezvous at the Expo: Building a Franco-American Women’s Network, 1889-1893-1900

[Karen Offen]

12. For the Benefit of All Women Everywhere: Feminist Internationalism at World’s Fairs and International Exhibitions

[TJ Boisseau]

13. French Women at the Paris 1937 Exhibition: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?

[Siân Reynolds]

Über Autor(innen)

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

Myriam Boussahba-Bravard is Professor in British Civilization at the Université Paris Diderot.