First complete study of the1898 Dutch National Exhibition of Women's Labor, its international relevance, and how the Exhibition's representations of the colonies, gender, class, and ethnicity, influenced political culture in the Netherlands.

Maria Grever and Berteke Waaldijk

Acknowledgments vii
Abbreviations xi
Introduction / Antoinette Burton 1
1. Feminist and the Public Sphere 9
2. An illustrated Women’s Conference 25
3. A Panorama in the Dunes 67
4. The Exhibition Experience 111
5. Colonialism on Display 193
6. Exhibition in Print and Visual Impressions 171
7. Creating a Counterpublic 193
8. After the Summer 215
Notes 225
List of References 271
Index 297
Illustrations fall after pages 116 and 148