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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.
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