Global Voices from the Women’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition

Marija Dalbello is Professor at Rutgers University, USA.Sarah Wadsworth is Professor at Marquette University, USA.

• 1. Global Voices from the Women’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition: Feminisms, Transnationalism, and the Archive.- Part I Reading (Across) the National Collections.- 2. A Comparative and Structural Analysis of European Works in the Woman’s Building Library.- 3. What Did Late Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Write?.- 4. Networks of Texts and Writers: The Swedish Contribution to the Woman’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition.- 5. “Spanish Lessons”.- Part II Gender and Modernism.- 6. Central European Collections: The Periphery Challenging the Center.- 7. How to Be a German Woman: Mixed Messages at the Columbian Exposition.- 8. The New Woman in the White City: Writing from Great Britain in the Woman’s Building Library.- 9. The Norwegian Ideals of Modern Womanhood and Identity Construction through the Women’s Library.- Part III Close Readings: Authoring Female Agency.- 10. Fatma Aliye’s Invisible Authorship: A Turkish Muslim Woman Writer’s Challenge to Orientalism and Patriarchy.- 11. The “Native New Woman”: Material Culture and the Indian Novel in the Women’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition.- 12. From Private Lives to Public Spaces: Nineteenth-Century Peruvian Eclecticism at the Chicago World’s Fair.- 13. French Authors at the Women’s Library at the World’s Columbian Exposition: A Stage of Feminism, Still Traditional Works.- 14. The Library as Exhibition.-