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Transforming the Public Sphere

The Dutch National Exhibition of Women's Labor in 1898

Autor: Maria Grever, Berteke Waaldijk

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Editura: Duke University Press

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In 1898, the year Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands was crowned, five hundred women organized an e...

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Autor

Maria Grever, Berteke Waaldijk

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2004

Pagini

352

EAN

9780822332589

ISBN

0822332582

Enbook ID

04937917

Editura

Duke University Press

Greutate

680

Dimensiuni

154 x 240 x 29

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In 1898, the year Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands was crowned, five hundred women organized an enormous public exhibition showcasing women's contributions to Dutch society as workers in a strikingly broad array of professions. The National Exhibition of Women's Labor, located in The Hague, was attended by more than ninety thousand visitors. Maria Grever and Berteke Waaldijk consider the exhibition in the international contexts of women's history, visual culture, and imperialism. Transforming the Public Sphere provides a comprehensive social history based on extensive research. The authors describe the role of exhibitions in late-nineteenth-century public culture, the planning and construction of the 1898 women's exhibition, and the event itself--the sights, sounds, and smells. They discuss how the exhibition displayed the range and variety of women's economic, intellectual, and artistic roles in Dutch culture, including their participation in such traditionally male professions as engineering, diamond-cutting, and printing and publishing. They examine how people and goods from the Dutch colonies were represented, most notably in an extensive open-air replica of a "Javanese village." Grever and Waaldijk reveal the tensions the exhibition highlighted: between women of different economic classes, between the goal of equal rights for women and the display of imperial subjects and spoils, and between socialists and feminists, who competed fiercely with one another for working women's support. Transforming the Public Sphere explores an event that served as the dress rehearsal for advances in women's public participation during the twentieth century.