This e-book argues for the significance of bringing ladies and gender extra without delay into the dynamic box of exposition experiences. Reclaiming ladies for the historical past of worldwide gala's (1876-1937), it additionally seeks to introduce new voices into those stories, dialoguing throughout disciplinary and nationwide historiographies.

From the outset, ladies participated not just as spectators, but additionally as artists, writers, educators, artisans and workers, with out figuring one of the organizers of foreign exhibitions till the 20 th century. Their presence grew to become extra pointedly stated as feminist activities constructed in the Western international and particular areas devoted to women’s achievements emerged.

International exhibitions emerged as showcases of "modernity" and "progress," but additionally as home windows onto the international, the various, the unforeseen and the awesome. As public rituals of occasion, they transposed nationwide ceremonies and protests onto a global level. For spectators, exhibitions introduced the area domestic; for organizers, the whole international used to be a fair.

Women have been actors and writers of the reasonable narrative, even though acknowledgment in their contribution used to be asymmetric and infrequently ephemeral. Uncovering such silence highlights how gendered the victorious historical past of modernity was once, and divulges the methods ladies as a class engaged with sleek existence inside of that vital smooth space—the global fair.