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

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