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Author Grever, Maria

Title Transforming the public sphere : the Dutch national exhibition of women's labor in 1898 / Maria Grever and Berteke Waaldijk ; translated by Mischa F.C. Hoyinck and Robert E. Chesal
Published Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 305 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraits
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Contents Feminists and the public sphere -- Women's labor -- The public sphere and citizenship -- Gender and visual culture -- Feminism and imperialism -- An illustrated women's conference -- Exhibitions and fairs -- International influences -- Objectives, resistance and hesitation -- Seriousness a priority -- Power struggle -- Financial woes -- Adriaan Goekoop -- An evolving organism -- Marie Jungius's concept -- Main protagonists -- A panorama in the dunes -- The opening ceremony -- The exhibition of exhibitions -- Feminism per square foot -- Taking the tour -- Participants -- Class divisions in the hall of industry -- Strike -- Exit the diamond cutters -- Marie Sparnaay's tactics -- Women's labor, social work -- A collection of social ills -- Pale with shock -- The exhibition experience -- 4.1 Visitors -- Smell and taste -- Hearing and listening -- Subject and object of the gaze -- Royal visit -- Colonialism on display -- An exhibition of colonial subjects -- Kampong Insulinde -- The lure of the exotic -- Exhibited or exhibitor? -- Javanese protest -- The Dutch East Indies room -- Home industry under threat -- Kartini and the white/brown divide -- Transatlantic contributions -- The unknown colony -- Leaving a legacy -- Exhibition in print -- Fact and fiction: Cecile and Hilda -- The library collection and exhibition publications -- Visual impressions -- Exposition by female artists -- Male artists at work -- Socialists and feminists in debate -- Domestic servants' conference -- Leftwing competition -- Resounding words -- Vocational and professional training for women -- Morality in a colonial context
Summary In 1898, the year Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands was inaugurated, five hundred women organized an enormous public exhibition showcasing women's contributions to Dutch society as workers in a strikingly broad array of professions. The National Exhibition of Women's Labor, held in The Hague, was attended by more than ninety thousand visitors. Maria Grever and Berteke Waaldijk consider the exhibition in the international contexts of women's history, visual culture, and imperialism. A comprehensive social history, Transforming the Public Sphere describes the planning and construction of the Exhibition of Women's Labor and the event itself - the sights, the sounds, and the smells - as well as the role of exhibitions in late-nineteenth-century public culture. The authors discuss how the 1898 exhibition displayed the range and variety of women's economic, intellectual, and artistic roles in Dutch culture, including their participation in such traditionally male professions as engineering, diamond-cutting, and printing and publishing. They examine how people and goods from the Dutch colonies were represented, most notably in an extensive open-air replica of a "Javanese village." Grever and Waaldijk reveal the tensions the exhibition highlighted: between women of different economic classes; between the goal of equal rights for women and the display of imperial subjects and spoils; and between socialists and feminists, who competed fiercely with one another for working women's support. Transforming the Public Sphere explores an event that served as the dress rehearsal for advances in women's public participation during the twentieth century
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-296) and index
Notes Translated from the Dutch
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SUBJECT Nationale Tentoonstelling van Vrouwenarbeid (1898 : Hague, Netherlands) -- History
Nationale Tentoonstelling van Vrouwenarbeid fast
Subject Women -- Netherlands -- History
Women -- Employment -- Netherlands -- History
Women's rights -- Netherlands -- History
Women -- Netherlands -- Social conditions
Feminism -- Netherlands -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Feminism
Women
Women -- Employment
Women -- Social conditions
Women's rights
Frauenarbeit
Frauenbewegung
Tentoonstellingen.
Vrouwenarbeid.
Vrouwenemancipatie.
Feminisme.
Netherlands
Niederlande
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Waaldijk, Berteke
LC no. 2003025003
ISBN 0822332582
9780822332589
0822332965
9780822332961
9780822385547
0822385546
Other Titles Feministische openbaarheid. English