Abstract
The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, conceived as a government-funded tribute to a prominent male in the country's history, also emerged as a forum for U.S. women intent on assuming an active role in its future. In this essay, diverse constructions of the feminine in the Fair's visual arts and live entertainments are examined against contemporaneous feminist oratory, and it is argued that the most prominent representations undermined rather than buttressed progressive agendas, by perpetuating the use of the female form as depersonalized vessel of allegory and passive reflector of fantasy.
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