Description
Book SynopsisFirst complete study of the1898 Dutch National Exhibition of Women's Labor, its international relevance, and how the Exhibition's representations of the colonies, gender, class, and ethnicity influenced political culture in the Netherlands
Trade Review“A unique study based on a virtual treasury of archival materials,
Transforming the Public Sphere touches on many of the most important issues of major concern today to historians of feminism and women’s history.”—Marilyn Boxer, coauthor of
Connecting Spheres: European Women in a Globalizing World, 1500 to the Present“Despite the veritable explosion of historical work on exhibitionary culture in the last decade, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of women in organizing the transnational spectacles that dominated the culturescapes of imperial modernity . . . .
Transforming the Public Sphere . . . offers an important corrective to this oversight.”—Antoinette Burton, from the introduction
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Abbreviations xi
Introduction / Antoinette Burton 1
1. Feminist and the Public Sphere 9
2. An illustrated Women’s Conference 25
3. A Panorama in the Dunes 67
4. The Exhibition Experience 111
5. Colonialism on Display 193
6. Exhibition in Print and Visual Impressions 171
7. Creating a Counterpublic 193
8. After the Summer 215
Notes 225
List of References 271
Index 297
Illustrations fall after pages 116 and 148
