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Women and Museums, 1850-1914

Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge. Gender in History

By (author) Kate Hill
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Manchester University Press, Manchester, United Kingdom
Published: 13th Sep 2018
Dimensions: w 132mm h 209mm d 22mm
Weight: 355g
ISBN-10: 1526136678
ISBN-13: 9781526136671
Barcode No: 9781526136671
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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. -- .

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'Kate Hill's Women and Museums, 1850-1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge, part of Manchester University Press's Gender in History series, is not only a masterful work of historical scholarship and careful theoretical, historiographical, and methodological intervention, but also a bracingly relevant and important book. In her sophisticated and nuanced treatment of gender and museums (including all kinds of collections, in all kinds of institutional settings), Hill makes a remarkable contribution that deserves to be read by all those interested in Victorian history and gender, as well as those specifically studying museums and collections. Crucially, her work also helps us think about the interactions between gender, power, and knowledge production in our own day. What comes out of this remarkable study, then, is a new way to appreciate the extraordinarily malleable and fascinating space that is the modern museum, in all of its many guises.'
Amy Woodson-Boulton, Loyola Marymount University, Victorian Studies, Vol 60, No. 3 -- .