Women and museums, 1850–1914

Women and museums, 1850–1914This 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

and the manner in which such constructions were received by the colonized people

political criticism

and from personal accounts to the formation of public discourse

to exhibit the manifestation of the Western cultural anxiety around the problematic

professional and public forces

It is the first to examine the informal negotiations that took place on the ground between the colonial authorities and the African-Caribbean population

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set in Gibraltar during the Second World War

the book reflects upon existing practice and articulates revolutionary prospects potentially viable through a shift in educative thinking

Known for his spectacular imagery

The book approaches performance art from a pedagogical aspect

this book is the first to deal with British Methodist women preachers over the entire nineteenth century