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Title:

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

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

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

Subject:

Exhibitions--History--19th century.
Exhibitions--History--20th century.
Exhibitions--History--History--19th century.
Exhibitions--History--History--20th century.
Women--History--19th century.
Women--History--20th century.
Women--History--History--19th century.
Women--History--History--20th century.
Sex role--History--19th century.
Sex role--History--20th century.

Other Authors:

Boisseau, Tracey Jean.
Markwyn, Abigail M.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Exposição 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.

ISBN:

0252077490 (paper : alk. paper)
9780252077494 (paper : alk. paper)
0252035585 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252035586 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)601331492

LCCN:

2010016580

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)