This field-defining work opens the study of world's fairs to
women's and gender history, exploring the intersections of
masculinity, femininity, exoticism, display, and performance at
these influential events. As the first global gatherings of mass
numbers of attendees, world's fairs and expositions introduced
cross-class, multi-racial, and mixed-sex audiences to each other,
as well as to cultural concepts and breakthroughs in science and
technology. "Gendering the Fair" focuses on the manipulation of
gender ideology as a crucial factor in the world's fairs'
incredible power to shape public opinions of nations, government,
and culture. Established and rising scholars working in a variety
of disciplines and locales discuss how gender played a role in
various countries' exhibits and how these nations capitalized on
opportunities to revise national and international understandings
of womanhood. Spanning several centuries and extending across the
globe from Portugal to London and from Chicago to Paris, the essays
cover topics including women's work at the fairs; the suffrage
movement; the intersection of faith, gender, and patriotism; and
the ability of fair organizers to manipulate fairgoers' experience
of the fairgrounds as gendered space. The volume includes a
foreword by preeminent world's fair historian Robert W. Rydell.
Contributors are TJ Boisseau, Anne Clendinning, Lisa K. Langlois,
Abigail M. Markwyn, Sarah J. Moore, Isabel Morais, Mary Pepchinski,
Elisabeth Israels Perry, Andrea G. Radke-Moss, Alison Rowley, and
Anne Wohlcke.
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