Chapter 1 Toward a Racialised Gendered Museum Literacy

In: Feminist Critique and the Museum
Author:
Lisa R. Merriweather
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23–40
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004440180_002

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Abstract

This chapter frames racialised gendered illiteracy as a fundamental flaw in museum curation, pedagogy, and scholarship and explores the representation of American Black women in museum spaces, but particularly, the National Women’s History Museum through this lens. Museum spaces were chosen because they are rhetorical devices that intentionally and unintentionally communicate messages about people and their personhood.

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Feminist Critique and the Museum

Educating for a Critical Consciousness

Cover Feminist Critique and the Museum
E-Book ISBN:
9789004440180
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
24 Aug 2020
Front Matter
Copyright page
Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 Stories Museums Tell
Chapter 1 Toward a Racialised Gendered Museum Literacy
Chapter 2 Infinitely Obscure Lives
Chapter 3 Fashioning Women, Defrocking Patriarchy
Chapter 4 Hacking Language
Chapter 5 An Exploration of Discourses on Niagara Falls
Chapter 6 Signs Images Words from 1968
Part 2 On War, Peace and Human Rights
Chapter 7 Whose (Military) Heritage? A Feminist Antimilitarist Analysis of Military Heritage Sites in Canada, England, and Europe
Chapter 8 The Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace
Chapter 9 Familiar Brushstrokes, Different Narratives
Chapter 10 Courage and Passion and World War Women
Chapter 11 From Darkness to Light? Problematising Transformative Learning at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
Part 3 Illumination, Provocation, Imagination
Chapter 12 ‘ArtActivistBarbie’
Chapter 13 The Critical Advocacies and Pedagogies of Women’s Museums
Chapter 14 A Room of Her Own
Chapter 15 Cultures of Headscarves
Chapter 16 The Invisibility Cloak
Back Matter
Index

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