Women and Museums, 18501914 - Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge

Informationen zum Autor Kate Hill is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Lincoln Klappentext 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 studiesThis book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 5, Gender equality. Zusammenfassung "This is the first attempt to recover the entirety of women's contribution to British museums in the period 1850-1914. It sheds lights on women as museum workers! donors and visitors! demonstrates that through such roles women profoundly influenced the development of museums in the period and suggests that museums were a key site for the development of modern gendered identities"--Back cover. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figuresAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction1. Inside the museum: including or excluding women?2. Outside the museum: women as donors and vendors3. Outside the museum: women's donations, materiality and the museum object4. Women visiting museums5. Women as patrons: the limits of agency? 6. New disciplines: archaeology, anthropology and women in museums7. Ruskin, women and museums: service and salvageConclusionBibliographyIndex...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kate Hill
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 21.06.2016
• EAN: 9780719081156
• ISBN: 978-0-7190-8115-6
• Pagine: 272
• Serie: Gender in History; Gender in History
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Women, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Material Culture, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, C 1900 - C 1914, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, c 1900 to c 1909, Women; Museums; History; Modernity; Gender; Gender equality