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Gendering the Fair: Histories of Women and Gender at World´s Fairs
Tj Boisseau
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Description for Gendering the Fair: Histories of Women and Gender at World´s Fairs
Paperback. Interrogating the gendered nature of world's fairs throughout history Editor(s): Boisseau, Tracey Jean; Markwyn, Abigail M. Num Pages: 288 pages, 32 b&w Photographs. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 422.
This field-defining work opens the study of world's fairs to women's and gender history, exploring the intersections of masculinity, femininity, exoticism, display, and performance at these influential events. As the first global gatherings of mass numbers of attendees, world's fairs and expositions introduced cross-class, multi-racial, and mixed-sex audiences to each other, as well as to cultural concepts and breakthroughs in science and technology. Gendering the Fair focuses on the manipulation of gender ideology as a crucial factor in the world's fairs' incredible power to shape public opinions of nations, government, and culture. Established and rising scholars working in a variety of ... Read more
This field-defining work opens the study of world's fairs to women's and gender history, exploring the intersections of masculinity, femininity, exoticism, display, and performance at these influential events. As the first global gatherings of mass numbers of attendees, world's fairs and expositions introduced cross-class, multi-racial, and mixed-sex audiences to each other, as well as to cultural concepts and breakthroughs in science and technology. Gendering the Fair focuses on the manipulation of gender ideology as a crucial factor in the world's fairs' incredible power to shape public opinions of nations, government, and culture. Established and rising scholars working in a variety of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252077494
SKU
V9780252077494
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About Tj Boisseau
TJ Boisseau is an associate professor of gender and cultural history at The University of Akron and the author of White Queen: May French-Sheldon and the Imperial Origins of American Feminist Identity. Abigail M. Markwyn is an assistant professor of history at Carroll University in Waukesha, Wisconsin.
Reviews for Gendering the Fair: Histories of Women and Gender at World´s Fairs
"Gendering the Fair makes a signal contribution to our understanding of world's fairs, gender, and modernization. The essays force not only a rethinking of world's fairs but also of the often-contested and always interesting relationships among gender, nationality, and the formation of feminine and masculine identity.”
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