Women in International and Universal Exhibitions, 1876-1937 by Rebecca Rogers

Women in International and Universal Exhibitions, 1876-1937 by Rebecca Rogers

This book introduces women into the history of world fairs through a dialogue across disciplinary and national historiographies that challenges existing narratives. It shows the ways women engaged in these modern spaces, as artists, writers, collectors, philanthropists, workers or feminists at a moment when feminist movements were developing.

"The book … focuses on the place that women occupied in the preparation of world fairs as well as on the influence the fairs then had on their activitiesThis theme offers a welcome addition to the considerable scholarship on international and universal exhibitions… [The volume] in particular draws attention to a wide variety of archives as each article ends with a list of sources and bibliography … testimony to the editors desire to highlight the archives allowing us to rewrite the history of exhibitions."

— Marie Chessel, Images du travail, Travail des images (translated from French)

"The volume’s interest in women’s participation and the gendered dynamics that shaped exhibitions brings to light hitherto neglected issues and opens new perspectives both for women’s history and for research on exhibitions."

— Júlia Garraio, ex aequo ((translated from Portuguese)

"The plurality of themes addressed in this richly documented volume contributes to a variety of historiographies and disciplines. Half of the essays address more than one universal exhibition. We hope, with the editors, that this important book will inspire further investigations revealing the fruitful intersection of histories of women and universal exhibitions."

— Anne Cova, Faces de Eva ((translated from Portuguese)

"A vast historiography already exists on international and universal exhibitions but little scholarship addresses specifically women’s participation despite their presence in the sources and the archives. Myriam Boussahba-Bravard and Rebecca Rogers have chosen to give voice to largely neglected women’s voices, to bring to light forgotten stories and, especially, to provoke an interdisciplinary and transnational dialogue among the authors that echoes that of the female participants in the exhibitions."

— Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière, Revue LISA/LISA ejournal (translated from French)

Myriam Boussahba-Bravard is Professor of Nineteenth-Century British History in the English and American Studies faculty of Université Paris Diderot.

Rebecca Rogers is Professor in the Histoire of Education at the Université Paris Descartes.

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ISBN 13	9780367884239
ISBN 10	0367884232
Title	Women in International and Universal Exhibitions, 1876-1937
Author	Rebecca Rogers
Series	Routledge Research In Gender And History
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2019-12-10
Number of pages	286
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