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Women and museums 1850–1914: Modernity and the gendering of knowledge (Gender in History) by Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie, Kate Hill is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>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 curat
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Pamela Sharpe, Penny Summerfield, Lynn Abrams, Cordelia Beattie, Kate Hill
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781526100313
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Travel, Computer Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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