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Bazaars & Fair Ladies: History American Fundraising Fair
Beverly Gordon
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Description for Bazaars & Fair Ladies: History American Fundraising Fair
Hardcover. Tracing their development from the early 1800s to the present day, Gordon shows how women's fairs have reflected and influenced American culture, including styles of display and presentation, forms of public entertainment, attitudes about consumption and commodities, and perceptions of other cultures and of the past. Num Pages: 285 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFSJ1; JKSN1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 210 x 27. Weight in Grams: 898.
Although women's charitable bazaars have contributed millions of dollars to important causes and institutions, they have long been thought of—by both historians and the public—as trivial events. Beverly Gordon corrects this view in Bazaars and Fair Ladies, the first history of women's fundraising fairs in the United States. Tracing their development from the early 1800s to the present day, Gordon show how women's fairs have reflected and influenced American culture, including styles of display and presentation, forms of public entertainment, attitudes about consumption and commodities, and perceptions of other cultures and of the past.
Gordon surveys the fundraising fair ... Read more
Although women's charitable bazaars have contributed millions of dollars to important causes and institutions, they have long been thought of—by both historians and the public—as trivial events. Beverly Gordon corrects this view in Bazaars and Fair Ladies, the first history of women's fundraising fairs in the United States. Tracing their development from the early 1800s to the present day, Gordon show how women's fairs have reflected and influenced American culture, including styles of display and presentation, forms of public entertainment, attitudes about consumption and commodities, and perceptions of other cultures and of the past.
Gordon surveys the fundraising fair ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Univ Tennessee Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781572330146
SKU
V9781572330146
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