Women and Museums, 1850–1914

Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge

Kate Hill (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2016
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7190-8115-6 (ISBN)

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This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons. It suggests that women persistently acted to domesticate the museum, by importing domestic objects and domestic regimes of value, as well as by making museums more welcoming to children, and even by stressing the importance of housekeeping at the museum. At the same time, women sought 'masculine' careers in science and curatorship, but found such aspirations hard to achieve; their contribution tended to be kept within clear, feminised areas.

The book will be of interest to those working on gender, culture, or museums in the period. It sheds new light on women's material culture and material strategies, education and professional careers, and leisure practices. It will form an important historical context for those working in contemporary museum studies
This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender equality. -- .

Kate Hill is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Lincoln -- .

List of figures
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Introduction
1. Inside the museum: including or excluding women?
2. Outside the museum: women as donors and vendors
3. Outside the museum: women's donations, materiality and the museum object
4. Women visiting museums
5. Women as patrons: the limits of agency?
6. New disciplines: archaeology, anthropology and women in museums
7. Ruskin, women and museums: service and salvage
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	27.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Gender in History
Zusatzinfo	11 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-7190-8115-7 / 0719081157
ISBN-13	978-0-7190-8115-6 / 9780719081156
Zustand	Neuware