Exhibiting Women: Sectional Confrontation and Reconciliation in the Woman's Department at the World's Exposition, New Orleans, 1884-85

At the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, the Woman's Department offered women of all regions of the country an opportunity to exhibit what they considered "woman's work." As women came together and attempted sectional reconciliation, controversy persisted, especially over the selection of northern suffragist Julia Ward Howe, author of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," as the Department's president. However, during the course of the event, which lasted from December 16, 1884 to May 31, 1885, New Orleanians and other southern women learned skills and strategies from participants and famous women visitors, and these southerners insinuated their voices into the national debate on late-nineteenth-century women's issues.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year

2006

Author dc:creator

• Pfeffer, Miki

Contributors dc:contributor

• Boyd, Anne
• Hazlett, John

• Nineteenth Century African Americans
• Julia Ward Howe and Newcomb College
• World's Fair and the New South
• Grace King and Pan Gnostics Club
• Women's Clubs and Southern Women Writers
• Caroline Merrick and WCTU
• Suffrage and Women Journalists
• Nicholson and Cole and the Picayune

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/339

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-1372