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Global voices from the women's library at the World's Columbian Exposition : feminism, transnationalism and the archive / Marija Dalbello, Sarah Wadsworth, editors
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.).
- World's Columbian Exposition.
- Women--Social conditions--19th century--Sources.
- Women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Chapter 1: Global Voices from the Women's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition: Feminisms, Transnationalism and the Archive
- The Structure of the Book
- Methodological Framework and Approaches
- The Woman's Building Library in the Context of Scholarship
- Conclusion
- References
- Works in the Woman's Building Library
- Other Works Cited
- Part I: Reading (Across) the National Collections
- Chapter 2: A Comparative and Structural Analysis of European Works in the Woman's Building Library
- Works
- Finding the Works and Interpreting Traces
- What Types of Documents Were Displayed?
- What Were the Documents About?
- Creators
- Chapter 3: What Did Late Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Write?: The Italian Contribution to the Woman's Building Library of the World Fair in Chicago (1893)
- Genesis and Reconstruction of the Italian Collection
- Chronological Distribution and Main Categories
- Literature
- Social Sciences: Education, Sociology, Folklore
- History
- Religion
- Science
- Which Quality? The Ideal Women's Library
- References
- Works in the Woman's Building Library
- Chapter 4: Networks of Texts and Writers: The Swedish Contribution to the Woman's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition
- Preparing for the Exposition
- The Writers
- The Works
- The Issues
- To Chicago and Beyond
- Chapter 5: "Spanish Lessons"
- Part II: Gender and Modernism
- Chapter 6: Central European Collections: The Periphery Challenging the Center
- The Creation of the Austrian and Bohemian Collections
- Authors
- Bohemian Authors
- Austrian Authors
- Content and Themes of the Collections
- Chapter 7: How to Be a German Woman: Mixed Messages at the Columbian Exposition
- National Display in an International Context
- Looking to the Past to Think About the Future
- Stuck in the Present
- Anticipating the Future
- Chapter 8: The New Woman in the White City: Writing from Great Britain in the Woman's Building Library
- Forming the British Collection
- Displaying the British Collection
- Interpreting the British Collection
- Chapter 9: The Norwegian Ideals of Modern Womanhood and Identity Construction through the Women's Library
- Context for the Norwegian Women's Collection
- From Skuld to Norsk Kvinnesaksforening to Kvinnestemmeretts Forening
- Lives of Women in Nineteenth-Century Norway
- Unpacking the Collection
- Norwegian Literature
- Domestic Arts, Handicrafts, and Home-Family Management
- "Feminist Works"
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Print version record.
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Global voices from the women's library at the World's Columbian Exposition.
- ISBN:
- 9783031424908
- 3031424905
- Publisher Number:
- 99995917247
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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