Gender and Heritage

Performance, Place and Politics
Herausgeber: Grahn, Wera; Wilson, Ross J

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781138208162
• ISBN-10: 1138208167
• Artikelnr.: 57052643

Autorenporträt

Ross J. Wilson is Professor of Modern History and Public Heritage at the University of Chichester, UK. His research interests include the experience, representation and memory of the First World War and he also focuses on issues of museum, media and heritage representations in the modern era. Wera Grahn is Associate Professor in Gender Studies, Senior Lecturer and Head of Unit at Linköping University, Sweden. She is also Director of Postgraduate Research Training and Director of the Master's Programme, Gender Studies - Intersectionality and Change. Previously, she has worked as a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research (NIKU) in Oslo, Norway (2007-2011) and was affiliated to Upplandsmuseet for research (2006-2007). Before that, she was a PhD student at Tema Genus in Linköping (1999-2006).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Chapter One: The tyranny of the normal and the importance of
being liminal; Chapter Two: Johanna, Moa and I'm Every Lesbian. Gender,
sexuality and class in Norrköping's industrial landscape; Chapter Three:
Gender, Heritage and Changing Traditions: Russian Old Believers in Romania;
Chapter Four: Handicrafting Gender: Craft, Performativity and Cultural
Heritage; Chapter Five: Naturing Gender and Gendering Nature in Museums;
Chapter Six: It's a man's world. Or is it? The 'Pilgrim Fathers', religion,
patriarchy, nationalism, and tourism; Chapter Seven: The Fleshyness of
Absence: The matter of absence in a feminist museology; Chapter Eight:
Taller than the rest: The Three Dikgosi Monument, Masculinity Reloaded;
Chapter Nine: Exploring Identities through Feminist Pedagogy; Chapter Ten:
Impasse or productive intersection? Learning to 'mess with genies' in
collaborative heritage research relationships; Chapter Eleven: Transversal
dances across time and space: feminist strategies for a critical heritage
studies; Chapter Twelve: Gendering 'the other Germany': Resistant and
Residual Narratives on Stauffenbergstraße, Berlin; Chapter Thirteen: Gender
and Intangible Heritage: Illustrating the Inter-disciplinary Character of
International Law; Chapter Fourteen: Women of Steel at the Sparrows Point
Steel Mill, Baltimore, USA; Chapter Fifteen: 'Does it matter?' Relocating
fragments of queer heritage in post-earthquake Christchurch; Chapter
Sixteen: The politics of heritage