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Women and museums 1850-1914 : Modernity and the gendering of knowledge /
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,...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title page
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Remaking gender relations, remaking the museum
- The distributed museum
- Public/private/domestic: gendered divisions in the late nineteenth century
- Notes
- 1 Inside the museum: including or excluding women?
- Museums, museum work and the Museums Association
- Kate Hall
- a female curator
- Women on the curatorial staff
- Women in non-curatorial roles
- Volunteers
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 2 Outside the museum: women as donors and vendors
- Donating patterns
- Women as part of a couple donation
- Widows, daughters, sisters and mothers
- Women as vendors of museum objects
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 3 Outside the museum: women's donations, materiality and the museum object
- Quantitative analysis of women's objects
- The nature of women's objects
- collective object biographies
- Textiles and clothing
- Souvenirs and relics
- 'Bygones' or old things
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 4 Women visiting museums
- Perceptions of women visitors
- Women as students in museums
- Women visitors: pleasures, possibilities and citizenship
- The pleasures of museum spaces: Beatrix Potter
- Women behaving badly
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 5 Women as patrons: the limits of agency?
- Women as museum critics
- Women as major art donors
- Women founding museums
- Women, funding and governance: taking on the art establishment?
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 6 New disciplines: archaeology, anthropology and women in museums
- Women, fieldwork and museums: the social organisation of archaeology
- Accidental anthropologists?
- Single women and wives in archaeology
- Fundraising, museums and the female community of the Egypt Exploration Fund
- Women, archaeology, anthropology and the academy
- Conclusion
- Notes
- 7 Ruskin, women and museums: service and salvage
- Preservation and 'salvage' museology
- John Ruskin and Ruskinian museums
- Women and the feminine philanthropic: domestic expertise
- Women and Ruskinian museums
- Craft and making
- Preservation and tradition
- Children and toys
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Archival sources
- Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
- Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
- Bristol Museum
- Bristol Record Office
- British Museum
- Cheltenham Museum and Art Gallery
- Egypt Exploration Society, Lucy Gura Archive
- Horniman Museum and Gardens
- Ipswich Museum
- Lancashire Archives
- Leicester Museum Service
- Liverpool Museums Archives
- London Metropolitan Archives
- Manchester Art Gallery
- Manchester Museum
- Manchester University Special Collections
- Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
- National Portrait Gallery Heinz Archive and Library
- Norwich Castle Museum
- Petrie Museum, University College London