Introduction: Positioning women in the world fairs, 1876-1937 / Myriam Boussahba-Bravard and Rebecca Rogers
Part I. Exhibiting women : collectors, artists and students
Expositions and collections : women art collectors and patrons in the age of the great expositions / Julie Verlaine
Unpretentious paintings : Mexico's National School of Fine Arts' women students at the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition / Ursula Tania Estrada
Inserting the personal in the international : the American girl at the 1900 Paris Exposition / Linda Kim
Part II. Promoting women : professionals, workers and organizers
"After mature deliberation" : women lawyers' infiltration of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition / Gwen Jordan
International expositions and the rewriting of Portuguese women's history (1889-1908) / Teresa Pinto
A "reason to act, an ideal to strive towards" : women as intellectual organizers at the Paris Exhibition of 1900 / Anne R. Epstein
Part III. Staging otherness : women on and from the margins
African American women's voices at the 1893 Chicago World Fair / Claudine Raynaud
Between knowledge and spectacle : exotic women at international exhibitions (Paris, 1889 and 1900) / Christiane Demeulenaere-Douyère
International activism after the fair : New South Wales, Utah, and the 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition / James Keating
Part IV. Mobilizing women : national, international, and transnational feminism(s)
Rendezvous at the expo : building a Franco-American women's network, 1889-1893-1900 / Karen Offen
Forging the transnational out of the international : feminist internationalism at world's fairs and international exhibitions / Tracey Jean Boisseau
French women at the Paris 1937 Exhibition : one step forward, two steps back? / Siân Reynolds.