Global Voices from the Women's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition : Feminisms, Transnationalism and the Archive

• Autore: Dalbello Marija
• Pubblicazione: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024; ©2023
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 pages)
• Disciplina: 305.409034
• Altri autori: WadsworthSarah
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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" -- Children's Literature -- Norwegian Language -- Nostalgia -- Religion -- Conclusion -- References -- Works in the Woman's Building Library -- Other Works Cited -- Part III: Close Readings: Authoring Female Agency -- Chapter 10: Fatma Aliye's Invisible Authorship: A Turkish Muslim Woman Writer's Challenge to Orientalism and Patriarchy -- Aliye's Works and Historical Context -- Autonomy of Women -- Islam, Women, and Orientalism -- References -- Works in the Woman's Building Library -- Other Works Cited -- Chapter 11: The "Native New Woman": Material Culture and the Indian Novel in the Women's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition -- The Kashmir Shawl -- Satthianadhan's Autoethnographic Novel -- References -- Works in the Woman's Building Library -- Other Works Cited. ; Chapter 12: From Private Lives to Public Spaces: Nineteenth-Century Peruvian Eclecticism at the Chicago World's Fair -- Crisis and Reconstruction -- Cabello de Carbonera's Work -- Sacrificio y recompensa (1886) -- Las consecuencias (1889) -- Blanca Sol (1889) -- References -- Works in the Woman's Building Library -- Other Works Cited -- Chapter 13: French Authors in the Women's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition: A Stage of Feminism, Still Traditional Works -- The Committee of French Ladies and the Organization of the French Library -- Selecting the Contemporary Female Works: A Decrease in the Use of Pseudonyms, Choice of Surname Still Hesitant -- The Writing of "Blue Stockings" Judged by Male Condescension: Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly Analyzes Henry Gréville -- Success Thanks to School Prescriptions: Henriette de Witt, Joséphine Colomb -- Thérèse Bentzon: Between France and the United States -- Juliette Adam: Between Politics, Imagination and Feminism -- References -- Chapter 14: The Library as Exhibition -- The Woman's Building Library as a Visual Experience -- Promoting and Preserving the Woman's Building and Its Library -- References -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Global Voices from the Women's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition
• ISBN: 3-031-42490-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910831006303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II