Transforming the Public Sphere - The Dutch National Exhibition of Women''s Labor in 1898

Informationen zum Autor Maria Grever is Professor of History and Theory at Erasmus University Rotterdam and a participant in the research program of the Nijmegen Center for Women’s Studies, both in the Netherlands.Berteke Waaldijk is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Klappentext "Despite the veritable explosion of historical work on exhibitionary culture in the last decade, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of women in organizing the transnational spectacles that dominated the culturescapes of imperial modernity . . . . "Transforming the Public Sphere" . . . offers an important corrective to this oversight."--Antoinette Burton, from the introduction Zusammenfassung First complete study of the1898 Dutch National Exhibition of Women's Labor! its international relevance! and how the Exhibition's representations of the colonies! gender! class! and ethnicity influenced political culture in the Netherlands Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Abbreviations xi Introduction / Antoinette Burton 1 1. Feminist and the Public Sphere 9 2. An illustrated Women’s Conference 25 3. A Panorama in the Dunes 67 4. The Exhibition Experience 111 5. Colonialism on Display 193 6. Exhibition in Print and Visual Impressions 171 7. Creating a Counterpublic 193 8. After the Summer 215 Notes 225 List of References 271 Index 297 Illustrations fall after pages 116 and 148

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• Authors: Maria Grever, Maria Waaldijk Grever, Berteke Waaldijk
• Assisted by: Robert E Chesal (Translation), Robert E. Chesal (Translation), Mischa F C Hoyinck (Translation), Mischa F. Hoyinck (Translation), Mischa F. C. Hoyinck (Translation)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.2004
• EAN: 9780822332961
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3296-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories