modernity and the gendering of knowledge
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Hill, Kate
- Publish Year
- 2016
- Shelfmark
- GR BR 54 2016 - B
- Thesaurus
- musea, fondsen, Verenigd Koninkrijk
- Description
- This book recovers the contribution made by women to museums, not just in 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.