Chapter 14 A Room of Her Own

Interrogating Gender in a Historic House Museum

In: Feminist Critique and the Museum
Authors:
Mary Pinkoski
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Lianne McTavish
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267–283
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004440180_015

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Abstract

Beginning with our lived experiences as a long-time historic interpreter and a frequent visitor to historic house museums, our chapter explores the complexities of how gender is performed at the John Walter Historic House Museum (Edmonton, Alberta, Canada). Through archival research of the life of Annie Elizabeth Walter – the wife of John Walter – we confront the challenges of enacting a conventionally understood feminist interpretation in house museums. Engaging in a critical reproductive praxis, we explore how historical constructs of gender is pedagogically reproduced in the interpretation at the museum, how it informed our research, and where the spaces were to challenge these constructions in order to present new pedagogical possibilities.

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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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