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

Other author Boisseau, Tracey Jean.
Other author Markwyn, Abigail M.
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2010.
Descriptionviii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Exhibitions--History. --19th century.
Exhibitions--History. --20th century.
Exhibitions--Social aspects. --History. --19th century.
Exhibitions--Social aspects. --History. --20th century.
Women--History. --19th century.
Women--History. --20th century.
Women--Public opinion. --History. --19th century.
Women--Public opinion. --History. --20th century.
Sex role--History. --19th century.
Sex role--History. --20th century.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010016580
ISBN9780252035586 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0252035585 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780252077494 (paper : alk. paper)
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Joyner General Stacks T395 .G35 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold