Part I Reading (Across) the National Collections.-
2. A Comparative and Structural Analysis of European Works in the Woman's Building Library.-3. What Did Late Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Write?.-
4. Networks of Texts and Writers: The Swedish Contribution to the Woman's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition.-5. "Spanish Lessons".-
Part II Gender and Modernism.-
6. Central European Collections: The Periphery Challenging the Center.-
7. How to Be a German Woman: Mixed Messages at the Columbian Exposition.-
8. The New Woman in the White City: Writing from Great Britain in the Woman's Building Library.-
9. The Norwegian Ideals of Modern Womanhood and Identity Construction through the Women's Library.-
Part III Close Readings: Authoring Female Agency.-
10. Fatma Aliye's Invisible Authorship: A Turkish Muslim Woman Writer's Challenge to Orientalism and Patriarchy.-
11. The "Native New Woman": Material Culture and the Indian Novel in the Women's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition.-
12. From Private Lives to Public Spaces: Nineteenth-Century Peruvian Eclecticism at the Chicago World's Fair.-
13. French Authors at the Women's Library at the World's Columbian Exposition: A Stage of Feminism, Still Traditional Works.-
14. The Library as Exhibition.-