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Women and Museums, 1850–1914

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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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ISBN: 9780719081156
Publication date: 21st June 2016
Author: Kate Hill
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 272 pages
Series: Gender in History
Genres: Social and cultural history
Travel guides: museums, historic sites, galleries etc
Gender studies: women and girls