Keywords:
Gender identity-History.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Gender and Heritage brings together a group of international scholars to examine the performance, place and politics of gender within heritage. It provides a range of innovative approaches to using gender as a mode of enquiry.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (301 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781315460079
Series Statement:
Key Issues in Cultural Heritage Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5325897
DDC:
363.69082
Language:
English
Note:
Intro -- Gender and Heritage -- Key Issues in Cultural Heritage -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List Of Contributors -- Series General Co-Editors' Foreword -- Part I Introduction -- 1 The Tyranny of the Normal and the Importance of Being Liminal -- Defining gender for a critical heritage studies -- The importance of being liminal -- A critical gender heritage studies -- Outline of the book -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Part II Performance -- 2 Johanna, Moa and I'M Every Lesbian: Gender, Sexuality and Class in NorrköPing'S Industrial Landscape -- Routes and paths -- Reiterating the line: the West End walk -- Circling the line: the Johanna walk -- Stretching the line: the Moa walk -- Transgressing the line: I'm every lesbian -- Sexuality, gender and class in post-industrial heritage productions -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3 Gender, Heritage and Changing Traditions: Russian Old Believers In Romania -- Introduction -- Gender and heritage -- Gender and the Old Believers -- Gender and the body -- Gender and place -- Mainstreaming gender -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4 Handicrafting Gender: Craft, Performativity and Cultural Heritage -- Introduction -- Institutions and the canon of heritage-making -- Performative aspects of craft and gender -- The Home Craft Movement and heritagization of crafts -- Crocheting: a non-heritage -- Visual representations of crocheting -- Crafting a new cultural heritage -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5 Naturing Gender and Gendering Nature in Museums -- Introduction -- Background -- Family pride: the stork -- Aircraft performance: the red knot -- Emotionalizing reproduction: seals -- Breeding and the order of the sexes: cattle and pigs -- Delicacy gone wild: the Pacific oyster -- The animal inside men: Tschägätta.
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Heteronormativity with a view -- The guideline: Museum and Gender -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part III Place -- 6 It's a Man's World. Or is it? the 'Pilgrim Fathers', Religion, Patriarchy, Nationalism and Tourism -- Introduction -- Background -- 'Pilgrim Fathers' deconstructed -- Pilgrims' heritage tourism in England -- 'Pilgrim Mothers' deconstructed -- Conclusion: en-gendering the Pilgrims -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- 7 The Fleshyness of Absence: The Matter of Absence in a Feminist Museology -- Introduction -- Absence, women and museums -- Sensing accountability for gendered absences -- Threading through nothingness and infinity - what does it entail? -- Hidden entanglements -- Materializations of absence -- Feminist absence -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 8 Taller than the Rest: The Three Dikgosi Monument, Masculinity Reloaded -- Introduction -- Gender and heritage framework in Botswana -- Masculinity and the role of a chief in Tswana culture -- Three Dikgosi Monument, a national monument and public heritage -- Three Dikgosi monument and celebrated masculinity -- The excluded past: the role of women -- Exclusion of the wives of the Three Dikgosi -- Analysis of informants' responses -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Exploring Identities Through Feminist Pedagogy -- Introduction -- Research background -- Bricolage and creolising feminist pedagogy at the Pitt Rivers Museum -- Philosophical hermeneutics: language, interpretation and dialogue -- Prejudice, tradition and the circle of understanding where horizons fuse -- Feminist-hermeneutic thought: situated knowledge(s) and standpoint texts -- Geneseo student's engagement, reflection and Imoinda trails at Pitt Rivers -- Student trails and their reflective statements -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
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10 Impasse or Productive Intersection? Learning to 'Mess With Genies' in Collaborative Heritage Research Relationships -- Introduction -- The genie -- Sabang: public silences, private memories -- Feminist standpoint theory and queer methodologies -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Part IV Politics -- 11 Transversal Dances Across Time and Space: Feminist Strategies for a Critical Heritage Studies -- Introduction -- Rubicon in its political context -- Artistic re-activation of Rubicon's legacy -- Walking between matter and metaphors - the ethics and aesthetics of resonance -- Crossing the Rubicon: towards a feminist critical heritage studies -- Acknowledgements -- Note -- Bibliography -- 12 Gendering 'The Other Germany': Resistant and Residual Narratives On StauffenbergstraßE, Berlin -- Introduction -- Locating the exhibition -- Gender, museums and resistance in context -- Framing the visit through the courtyard: male, masculine, military and national -- Entrance narratives: the exceptional and the everyday -- Representing 20 July 1944: gendered presences and absences -- Exhibiting diversity: photographic communities and the isolated individual -- Conclusion: resistant and residual narratives -- Notes -- References -- 13 Gender and Intangible Heritage: Illustrating the Inter-Disciplinary Character of International Law -- Introduction -- Gender diversity and ICH: an anthropological approach -- Gender equality and ICH: a human rights-based approach -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- 14 Women of Steel at the Sparrows Point Steel Mill, Baltimore, Usa -- Introduction -- Sparrows Point and the Mill Stories project -- The Women of Steel -- The 1970s onwards: sacrifice and pride -- Women of Steel -- What remains? -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 15 'Does it Matter?' Relocating Fragments of Queer Heritage in Post-Earthquake Christchurch.
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Introduction -- Queer heritage from below -- Queer heritage in a post-disaster city -- Displacement -- Ambivalence -- Invisibility -- Reminding -- Remembering -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part V Conclusion -- 16 The Politics Of Heritage: How to Achieve Change -- The importance of gender -- Support of the highest management team -- The position of research -- Gender as a qualification for new positions -- How to think about gender integration in exhibitions -- Degrees of gender integration -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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