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Book SynopsisInterrogating the gendered nature of world's fairs throughout history
Trade Review"
Gendering the Fair makes a signal contribution to our understanding of world's fairs, gender, and modernization. The essays force not only a rethinking of world's fairs but also of the often-contested and always interesting relationships among gender, nationality, and the formation of feminine and masculine identity.”--Candy Gunther Brown, author of
The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America"This impressive scholarly collection of essays encompasses much more than gender and the popular perception of World's Fairs. An essential addition."--
Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d'histoireTable of ContentsFOREWORD vii
Robert W. Rydell WORLD'S FAIRS IN FEMINIST HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE 1
TJ Boisseau and Abigail M. Markwyn PART 1 WOMAN, GENDER, AND NATION
1. "Little Black Rose" at the 1934
Exposicao Colonial Portuguesa 19
Isabel Morais 2. The New Soviet Woman at the 1939 New York World's Fair 37
Alison Rowley 3. Japan -- Modern, Ancient, and Gendered at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair 56
Lisa K. Langlois 4. Manliness and the New American Empire at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition 75
Sarah J. Moore PART II WOMEN IN ACTION
5. Mormon Women, Suffrage, and Citizenship at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair 97
Andrea G. Radke-Moss 6. Internationalist Peace Activism at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition 113
Anne Clendinning 7. The Woman's World's Fairs (or the Dream of Women Who Work), Chicago 1925-1928 131
TJ Boisseau 8. Memorializing the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Woman's Building 149
Elisabeth Israels Perry PART III GENDERED SPACES
9. Encountering "Woman" on the Fairgrounds of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition 169
Abigail M. Markwyn 10. Woman's Buildings at European and American World's Fairs, 1893-1939 187
Mary Pepchinski 11. Policing Masculine Festivity at London's Early Modern Fairs 208
Anne Wohlcke SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 227
CONTRIBUTORS 233
INDEX 237
