Gendering the fair : histories of women and gender at world's fairs / edited by TJ Boisseau & Abigail M. Markwyn ; foreword by Robert W. Rydell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boisseau, Tracey Jean.

Markwyn, Abigail M.

Rydell, Robert W., Author of introduction, etc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Exhibitions--History--19th century.

Exhibitions.

Exhibitions--History--20th century.

Exhibitions--Social aspects--History--19th century.

Exhibitions--Social aspects--History--20th century.

Women--History--19th century.

Women.

Women--History--20th century.

Women--Public opinion--History--19th century.

Women--Public opinion--History--20th century.

Sex role--History--19th century.

Sex role.

Sex role--History--20th century.

Exposição Colonial Portuguesa--(1st : 1934 : Porto, Portugal).

Exposição Colonial Portuguesa.

New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.).

New York World's Fair.

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

World's Columbian Exposition.

Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915 : San Francisco, Calif.).

Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

British Empire Exhibition (1924-1925 : Wembley, London, England).

British Empire Exhibition.

Woman's World's Fair.

Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition (1897 : Nashville, Tenn.).

Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition.

Genre:

World's fairs.

Physical Description:

viii, 243 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2010.

Contents:

World's fairs in feminist historical perspective / TJ Boisseau and Abigail M. Markwyn

pt. I. Woman, gender, and nation. "Little Black Rose" at the 1934 Exposicao Colonial Portuguesa / Isabel Morais

The new Soviet woman at the 1939 New York World's Fair / Alison Rowley

Japan : modern, ancient, and gendered at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair / Lisa K. Langlois

Manliness and the new American empire at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition / Sarah J. Moore

pt. II. Women in action. Mormon women, suffrage, and citizenship at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair / Andrea G. Radke-Moss

Internationalist peace activism at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition / Anne Clendinning

The Woman's World's Fairs (or the dream of women who work), Chicago 1925-1928 /TJ Boisseau

Memorializing the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Woman's Building / Elisabeth Israels Perry

pt. III. Gendered spaces. Encountering "woman" on the fairgrounds of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition / Abigail M. Markwyn

Woman's buildings at European and American world's fairs, 1893-1939 / Mary Pepchinski

Policing masculine festivity at London's early modern fairs / Anne Wohlcke.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780252077494 : PAP

0252077490 : PAP

OCLC:

83639