Once Again in Chicago
Revisioning women as workers at the Chicago Woman's World's Fairs of 1925-1928
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4348071 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tracey Jean Boisseau (0009-0004-3827-8777, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 265-291 |
| Publication date | 2009-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612020902770972 |
| OpenAlex | W2049980220 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Women’s systematic exclusion from most world’s fair administrations after an illustrious showing in Chicago in 1893 is sometimes explained by a waning interest among women in female‐centered activism, particularly in the period following the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. The entirely women‐run world’s fairs, in miniature, staged annually in Chicago in the 1920s belie this interpretation and evince women’s determination to utilize the format of the world’s fair to reshape public opinion about women’s roles. Cross‐class idealism and a focus on women’s employment at these fairs contrasts sharply with the elitist, racialist, and imperialist rhetoric surrounding the 1893 Woman’s Building, as well as the masculinist, consumerist, and eugenic visions that characterized the 1930s Century of Progress Exposition. The essay ends with a discussion of Chicago women’s fair organizing in the 1980s, and the historical consciousness regarding women’s representation and participation at previous Chicago expositions that shaped these organizers’ feminist vision
Art · Eugenics · Feminism · Idealism · Literature · New Woman · Political science · Rhetoric · Sociology · Vision · American History and Culture · French Historical and Cultural Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |