The fair women / Jeanne Madeline Weimann ; introduction by Anita Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weimann, Jeanne Madeline, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.).

World's Columbian Exposition.

Feminism--United States--History--19th century.

Feminism.

United States.

History.

Genre:

World's fairs.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 611 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Ill. : Academy Chicago, 1981.

Summary:

The World's Columbian Exhibition, held in Chicago in 1893, included amazing exhibits of the results of women's activities-- in the arts, in industry, in science, and in reform and philanthropic work. Most of these were housed in the Women's Building, which was designed, decorated, and controlled entirely by women. Weimann traces the struggles among the women for the domination of the Board of Lake Managers, describing the politics and passion for the first time.

Contents:

Queen of the West

Government discovers Chicago

Government discovers women

The chivalric chimera

Phoebe Couzins

Parian and ebony

Circling the globe

The ladies lovely child

The decorators

Prodigies of preparation

Women in the white city

A glorious wealth of mediocrity

Cots and cribs

Mob of scribbling women

Women in savagery

Rare and interesting lines of work

Refined avenues of effort

Mementoes of an emancipated era

Organizations

Not things but women: the congresses

The summer sessions: not enough of the duchess

After the fair is over.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 601-604.

ISBN:

0915864673 :

0897330250

OCLC:

6708725