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1 online resource |
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Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Global Voices from the Women's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition: Feminisms, Transnationalism and the Archive -- The Structure of the Book -- Methodological Framework and Approaches -- The Woman's Building Library in the Context of Scholarship -- Conclusion -- References -- Works in the Woman's Building Library -- Other Works Cited -- Part I: Reading (Across) the National Collections -- Chapter 2: A Comparative and Structural Analysis of European Works in the Woman's Building Library |
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Works -- Finding the Works and Interpreting Traces -- What Types of Documents Were Displayed? -- What Were the Documents About? -- Creators -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: What Did Late Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Write?: The Italian Contribution to the Woman's Building Library of the World Fair in Chicago (1893) -- Genesis and Reconstruction of the Italian Collection -- Chronological Distribution and Main Categories -- Literature -- Social Sciences: Education, Sociology, Folklore -- History -- Religion -- Science -- Which Quality? The Ideal Women's Library -- References |
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Works in the Woman's Building Library -- Other Works Cited -- Chapter 4: Networks of Texts and Writers: The Swedish Contribution to the Woman's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition -- Preparing for the Exposition -- The Writers -- The Works -- The Issues -- To Chicago and Beyond -- References -- Chapter 5: "Spanish Lessons" -- References -- Works in the Woman's Building Library -- Other Works Cited -- Part II: Gender and Modernism -- Chapter 6: Central European Collections: The Periphery Challenging the Center -- The Creation of the Austrian and Bohemian Collections -- Authors |
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Bohemian Authors -- Austrian Authors -- Content and Themes of the Collections -- Conclusion -- References -- Works in the Woman's Building Library -- Other Works Cited -- Chapter 7: How to Be a German Woman: Mixed Messages at the Columbian Exposition -- National Display in an International Context -- Looking to the Past to Think About the Future -- Stuck in the Present -- Anticipating the Future -- References -- Works in the Woman's Building Library -- Other Works Cited -- Chapter 8: The New Woman in the White City: Writing from Great Britain in the Woman's Building Library |
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Forming the British Collection -- Displaying the British Collection -- Interpreting the British Collection -- References -- Works in the Woman's Building Library -- Other Works Cited -- Chapter 9: The Norwegian Ideals of Modern Womanhood and Identity Construction through the Women's Library -- Context for the Norwegian Women's Collection -- From Skuld to Norsk Kvinnesaksforening to Kvinnestemmeretts Forening -- Lives of Women in Nineteenth-Century Norway -- Unpacking the Collection -- Norwegian Literature -- Domestic Arts, Handicrafts, and Home-Family Management -- "Feminist Works" |
| Summary |
Long recognized as a cultural watershed and touchstone of modernity, the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (Worlds 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 womens organizations in twenty-four countries from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the library of the Womans 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) womens committees to extend our understanding of womens contribution to global print culture and the extension of women's rights up to 1893. Marija Dalbello is Professor at Rutgers University, USA. Sarah Wadsworth is Professor at Marquette University, USA |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80008759
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| Subject |
Women -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Sources
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Dalbello, Marija.
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Wadsworth, Sarah, 1963-
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| ISBN |
9783031424908 |
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3031424905 |
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