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Global voices from the women's library at the World's Columbian Exposition : feminism, transnationalism and the archive
Title
Global voices from the women's library at the World's Columbian Exposition : feminism, transnationalism and the archive / Marija Dalbello, Sarah Wadsworth, editors.
ISBN
9783031424892
3031424891
9783031424908
Publication
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright Notice Date
©2023
Physical Description
xvii, 267 pages : illustrations (some color), charts, facsimiles (some color) ; 22 cm
Summary
"Long recognized as a cultural watershed and touchstone of modernity, the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (World's Columbian Exposition) was the site of the first large-scale international library of writing by women. The result of years of planning and cooperation by women's organizations in twenty-four countries from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the library of the Woman's Building contained more than 8,000 volumes, with more than 3,000 from countries other than the United States. This book collects the work of feminist scholars specializing in different national traditions and transnational comparative analysis and focuses on the contributions of the international (non-US) women's committees to extend our understanding of women's contribution to global print culture and the extension of women's rights up to 1893." -- page [4] of cover.
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Feminism, transnationalism and the archive
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English
Added to Catalog
March 26, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Partial contents
Part I. Reading (across) the national collections. A comparative and structural analysis of european works in the Woman's Building Library / Anselm Spoerri ; Marija Dalbello ; Janette Derucki
What did late nineteenth-century italian women write?: the italian contribution to the Woman's Building Library of the World Fair in Chicago (1893) / Silvia Valisa
Networks of texts and writers: the swedish contribution to the Woman's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition / Johanna McElwee
"Spanish lessons" / Noël Valis.
Part II. Gender and Modernism. central european collections: the periphery challenging the center / Marija Dalbello
How to be a german woman: mixed messages at the Columbian Exposition / Lynne Tatlock
The new woman in the white city: writing from Great Britain in the Woman's Building Library / Sarah Wadsworth
The norwegian ideals of modern womanhood and identity construction through the Women's Library / Marianne Martens.
Part III. Close readings: authoring female agency. Fatma Aliye's invisible authorship: a turkish muslim woman writer's challenge to orientalism and patriarchy / Enaya Hammad Othman
The "native new woman": material culture and the indian novel in the Women's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition / Jackielee Derks
From private lives to public spaces: nineteenth-century peruvian eclecticism at the Chicago World's Fair / Elena González-Muntaner
French authors in the Women's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition: a stage of feminism, still traditional works / Martine Poulain
The library as exhibition / Christine Giviskos.
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