Women In International And Universal Exhibitions 1876 1937

Author : Rebecca Rogers,Myriam Boussahba-Bravard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351767330

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Women in International and Universal Exhibitions, 1876–1937 by Rebecca Rogers,Myriam Boussahba-Bravard Pdf

This book argues for the importance of bringing women and gender more directly into the dynamic field of exposition studies. Reclaiming women for the history of world fairs (1876-1937), it also seeks to introduce new voices into these studies, dialoguing across disciplinary and national historiographies. From the outset, women participated not only as spectators, but also as artists, writers, educators, artisans and workers, without figuring among the organizers of international exhibitions until the 20th century. Their presence became more pointedly acknowledged as feminist movements developed within the Western World and specific spaces dedicated to women’s achievements emerged. International exhibitions emerged as showcases of "modernity" and "progress," but also as windows onto the foreign, the different, the unexpected and the spectacular. As public rituals of celebration, they transposed national ceremonies and protests onto an international stage. For spectators, exhibitions brought the world home; for organizers, the entire world was a fair. Women were actors and writers of the fair narrative, although acknowledgment of their contribution was uneven and often ephemeral. Uncovering such silence highlights how gendered the triumphant history of modernity was, and reveals the ways women as a category engaged with modern life within that quintessential modern space—the world fair.

Author : Myriam Boussahba-bravard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367884232

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Women in International and Universal Exhibitions, 1876 1937 by Myriam Boussahba-bravard Pdf

Author : Véronique Chagnon-Burke,Caterina Toschi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350292437

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Women Art Dealers by Véronique Chagnon-Burke,Caterina Toschi Pdf

Women Art Dealers brings together fascinating case studies of galleries run by women between the 1940s and 1980s. It marks a departure from other work in the field of art markets, challenging male-dominated histories by analyzing the work of female dealers who anticipated the global model, worked to promote art across continents, and thus developed an international art market. Part 1 focuses on the women gallerists behind the promotion of modern art after World War II who participated in important research about the neo-Avant-Garde. Part 2 examines the contributions by women art dealers toward the birth of new markets – through establishing the reputation of artistic genres, such as video art and photography, and working at the forefront of advancing contemporary art. Finally, Part 3 analyzes case studies from the southern European art scene, paying fresh attention to several under-researched markets in the region like Italy and Portugal. Each chapter study provides a historiographic profile of the gallery under discussion and critical analysis is supported with a wide range of visual material including portraits of the women art dealers, photographs of the exhibitions they managed, and printed documentation like catalogues, invitations, and posters that were often used to support artists on display in experimental ways.

Author : Wendy Jean Katz
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803278806

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The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899 by Wendy Jean Katz Pdf

The Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898 celebrated Omaha’s key economic role as a center of industry west of the Mississippi River and its arrival as a progressive metropolis after the Panic of 1893. The exposition also promoted the rise of the United States as an imperial power, at the time on the brink of the Spanish-American War, and the nation’s place in bringing “civilization” to Indigenous populations both overseas and at the conclusion of the recent Plains Indian Wars. The Omaha World’s Fair, however, is one of the least studied American expositions. Wendy Jean Katz brings together leading scholars to better understand the event’s place in the larger history of both Victorian-era America and the American West. The interdisciplinary essays in this volume cover an array of topics, from competing commercial visions of the cities of the Great West; to the role of women in the promotion of City Beautiful ideals of public art and urban planning; and the constructions of Indigenous and national identities through exhibition, display, and popular culture. Leading scholars T. J. Boisseau, Bonnie M. Miller, Sarah J. Moore, Nancy Parezo, Akim Reinhardt, and Robert Rydell, among others, discuss this often-misunderstood world’s fair and its place in the Victorian-era ascension of the United States as a world power.

Author : Ana Stevenson
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030244675

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The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth-Century American Social Movements by Ana Stevenson Pdf

This book is the first to develop a history of the analogy between woman and slave, charting its changing meanings and enduring implications across the social movements of the long nineteenth century. Looking beyond its foundations in the antislavery and women’s rights movements, this book examines the influence of the woman-slave analogy in popular culture along with its use across the dress reform, labor, suffrage, free love, racial uplift, and anti-vice movements. At once provocative and commonplace, the woman-slave analogy was used to exceptionally varied ends in the era of chattel slavery and slave emancipation. Yet, as this book reveals, a more diverse assembly of reformers both accepted and embraced a woman-as-slave worldview than has previously been appreciated. One of the most significant yet controversial rhetorical strategies in the history of feminism, the legacy of the woman-slave analogy continues to underpin the debates that shape feminist theory today.

Author : Meaghan Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351027762

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Fashionability, Exhibition Culture and Gender Politics by Meaghan Clarke Pdf

Fair Women was the Victorian equivalent of a ‘blockbuster’ exhibition. Organised by a committee of women, it opened to great fanfare in the Grafton Galleries in London, and was comprised of both historical and contemporary portraits of women as well as decorative objects. Meaghan Clarke argues that the exhibition challenged contemporary assumptions about the representation of women and the superficiality of female collectors. The Fair Women phenomenon complicated gender stereotypes and foregrounded women as cultural arbiters. This book uncovers a wide range of texts and images to reveal that Fair Women brought together fashion, modernity and gender politics in new and surprising ways. It shows that, while invariably absent in institutional histories, women were vital to the development of the modern blockbuster exhibition. This book will be of interest to scholars in art and gender studies, museum studies, feminist art history, women artists and art history.

Author : Rebecca Adami
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429795527

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Women and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by Rebecca Adami Pdf

Who were the non-Western women delegates who took part in the drafting of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) from 1945-1948? Which member states did these women represent, and in what ways did they push for a more inclusive language than "the rights of Man" in the texts? This book provides a gendered historical narrative of human rights from the San Francisco Conference in 1945 to the final vote of the UDHR in the United Nations General Assembly in December 1948. It highlights the contributions by Latin American feminist delegates, and the prominent non-Western female representatives from new member states of the UN.

Author : Francine Giese,Mercedes Volait,Ariane Varela Braga
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004412644

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À l’orientale: Collecting, Displaying and Appropriating Islamic Art and Architecture in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries by Francine Giese,Mercedes Volait,Ariane Varela Braga Pdf

The present volume offers an overview of collecting and displaying Islamic art during the long nineteenth century. A section of the volume focuses on the figure of the Swiss collector Henri Moser Charlottenfels. Special attention is given to little-known collections in Eastern Europe and beyond. L’ouvrage fournit un panorama du collectionnisme d’art islamique au cours du long XIXe siècle, en mettant l’accent sur la figure d’Henri Moser Charlottenfels et des collections méconnues situées en Europe central, et au-delà.

Author : Claire Emilie Martin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031404948

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The Palgrave Handbook of Transnational Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century by Claire Emilie Martin Pdf

Author : Eva Maria Hinterhuber,Jana Günther
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9782832543931

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Citizenship and Democratization: Perspectives from Different Gender-Theoretical Approaches by Eva Maria Hinterhuber,Jana Günther Pdf

The year 1918 was significant in many ways, seeing the end of World War 1. At the same time, the impact and transformational effects of this event enabled civil society activists and politically institutionalised actors in European countries to pick up the threads of democratic social movements and parliamentary aspirations, and make use of “political opportunity structures” to obtain citizen rights for larger parts of the population. One result of this process – albeit with a difference between European states – was that more groups in society gained suffrage. Amongst those were large sections of the working class and women. While the vote was won for some new social groups in European societies, others were still excluded. After one centennium of struggle for political participation, we would like to discuss specific problems of politics of belonging. The question concerning the full recognition of citizen rights was and continually is connected to ideas of a specific membership of a nation state, a fact that denotes the particular problem of membership and non-membership and of inside and outside. This Research Topic will take account of this special field of tension of democratisation – e.g. inclusion through exclusion – from a perspective of social history, political science, gender studies and intersectionality approaches. This analytical foil shall be used to examine the relationship between state or government action and civil society, as well as the reproduction of social and political inequality despite increasing democratisation movements.

Author : Thomas Adam
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781683932734

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Yearbook of Transnational History by Thomas Adam Pdf

The Yearbook of Transnational History is dedicated to disseminating pioneering research in the field of transnational history. This third volume is dedicated to the transnational turn in urban history. It brings together articles that investigate the transnational and transatlantic exchanges of ideas and concepts for urban planning, architecture, and technology that served to modernize cities across East and Central Europe and the United States. This collection includes studies about regionals fairs as centers of knowledge transfer in Eastern Europe, about the transfer of city planning among developing urban centers within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, about the introduction of the Bauhaus into American society, and about the movement for constructing paved roads to connect cities on a global scale. The volume concludes with a historiographical article that discusses the potential of the transnational perspective to urban history. The articles in this volume highlight the movement of ideas and practices across various cultures and societies and explore the relations, connections, and spaces created by these movements. The articles show that modern cities across the European continent and North America emerged from intensive exchanges of ideas for almost every aspect of modern urban life.

Author : Filipa Lowndes Vicente,Afonso Dias Ramos
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031277955

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Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975 by Filipa Lowndes Vicente,Afonso Dias Ramos Pdf

This edited collection presents the first critical and historical overview of photography in Portuguese colonial Africa to an English-speaking audience. Photography in Portuguese Colonial Africa, 1860–1975 brings together sixteen scholars from interdisciplinary fields as varied as history, anthropology, art history, visual culture and museum studies, to consider some of the key aspects in the visual representation of the longest-lasting European colonial empire in the African continent. The chapters span over two centuries and cover five formerly colonial territories – Angola, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe – deploying a range of methodologies to explore the multiple meanings and the contested uses of the photographic image across the realms of politics, science, culture and war. This book responds to a marked surge of international interest in the relationship between photography and colonialism, which has hitherto largely overlooked the Portuguese imperial context, by delivering the most recent scholarly findings to a broad readership.

Author : Esther Kingston-Mann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351690997

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Women, Land Rights and Rural Development by Esther Kingston-Mann Pdf

The failure to include gender in the economic history of rural development has severely limited our understanding of privatizing, collectivist and colonial economic policies that disrupted and transformed the lives of rural women and men in the modern world. This book is unique in its focus on female economic agency, and in its exploration of the latter virtue in comparative historical perspective. It presents the apparently disparate cases of 17th-century England, 20th-century Russia and the Soviet Union, and 20th-century Kenya, as their top-down modernization projects were implemented in similar fashion --particularly in the case of women. The female half of the population was largely absent from contemporary economic databases, but nevertheless stereotyped as obstacles to rational economic decision-making. Introducing rural women and their innovations into male-centered narratives of economic history lays the foundation for a more demographically balanced and realistic understanding of rural behavior and rural development. In this study, women’s labor and land claims are the lens through which both female agency and the delegitimizing of women’s land claims become more visible. Both policy-makers and their leading critics deployed virtually identical language to describe backward, unruly and invariably “unsightly” peasant women.

Author : Jenny Ingemarsdotter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429656538

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The Masculine Modern Woman by Jenny Ingemarsdotter Pdf

This book takes a fresh approach to one of the most popular cultural symbols of modernity in the 1920s—the "masculine" modern woman. Uncovering discourses on female masculinity in interwar Sweden, a nation that struggled to become modern but not decadent, this study examines cultural representations and debates across several arenas including fashion, film, sports, automobility, medicine and literature. Drawing on rich empirical material, this book traces not only how the masculine modern woman reshaped the imaginary space of what women could be, do and desire, but also how this space was eventually shrunk in order to fit into an emerging vision of a family-oriented "people’s home."

Author : Jana Byars
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429675614

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Informal Marriages in Early Modern Venice by Jana Byars Pdf

Conditions of the marriage market and sexual culture, and the needs of wealthy families and their members created social tensions in the late sixteenth and early-seventeenth century Venice. This study details these tensions and discusses concubinage– a long-term, sexual, non-marital union - as an alternate family model that soothed them by meeting the needs of families and individuals in a manner that did not offend the sensibilities of the authorities or other Venetians. Concubinage was quite common, and the Venetian community regularly accepted concubinaries, concubinal relationships, and the offspring concubinage produced.