The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender offers an exceptional range of international contributions that interrogate and analyse the interactions within - and between - heritage and gender.
The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender offers an exceptional range of international contributions that interrogate and analyse the interactions within - and between - heritage and gender.
Taking an intersectional and global approach, the Handbook opens up space for a more critical and situated consideration of how gender comes into contact with heritage as a concept and practice. The volume considers heritage in the broadest sense: as a concept, performance, and materialization. The contributions also consider how heritage impacts identity, power, people, values, politics, and ethics, as well as processes and sites across material culture, nature, and intangible practices. The volume and its contributions are inclusive of Cisgender, Trans, Non-Binary, Agender, and Intersex identities. Reflecting the multidisciplinary and transnational voices of its authors, the collection challenges readers to consider what a focused analysis of heritage and gender can offer Heritage Studies as an evolving discipline and field of study.
The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender will be of interest to academics and students working in Heritage Studies, Museum Studies, Art History, History, Anthropology, Gender and Women’s Studies and International Development.
List of Figures; List of Contributors; Introduction; PART 1: Materiality
and Performance of Gender 1 Gendering Material Objects in Heritage
Practice; 2 Bridal Ornaments and Heritage Performances in India: The Case of
Kanchipuram Silk Saree and Temple Bridal Jewellery; 3 Queerly Intersectional
at the Dawn of Heritage Preservation: Judah Touro; 4 Womens Stories Unheard
in the Military Border Zone: Kitchen Storytelling as Methodology; 5
Safeguarding Bulgarian Applied Folk Art : The Work of Helene Oucheff; 6 The
(Miss) Representation of Women in European Prehistory Museum Displays:
Breaking the Glass Display Case; PART 2: Gendered Heritage Landscapes 7 The
Representation of Rosa Parks on the American Civil Rights Memorial Landscape:
Trapped on the Bus; 8 Gender and Heritage at Home at the Pankhurst Centre
and Potters Hill Top; 9 A Queer Manipulation of the Sheats-Goldstein House:
Quite a pad you got here, man; 10 Contested Transcultural Spaces: The
Mother Goddess Religions Sacred Sites and Rituals in Hu City, Vietnam; 11
Heritage Interpretation and First-Person Narratives: Producing a Feminist
Reading of Cultural Landscapes; 12 An Ethnoarchaeology of Precolonial Gold
Mining and the Role of Women in Eastern Zimbabwe; 13 Industrial Archaeologies
of Edna Lumb and Angela Croome: Curating Aggregate; PART 3: Violence as
Gender Heritage -- 14 Sexual Violence in Premodern South Asian Literature:
Unsavory Heritage; 15 Trauma, Memory, and Identity of Women in the Cambodia
Diaspora; 16 Overwritten Memories: The Representation of Sexual Violence in
the Arts and Memory Space Fragmentos; 17 The Women behind the Door: The Casa
de la Memoria Kaji Tulam and the Reinterpretation of Guatemalan History; 18
Womens Monumental Activism: Statues That Matter; PART 4: Arts-led
Methodologies for Remembrance and Activation 19 The Performative Legacies
of the Womens Peace Camp at Greenham Common: Beyond Monuments; 20 The
Illustrator in the Archive of Katie Gliddon; 21 Recovering the Excluded Women
in English Folk and Calendar Customs: Social Art as a Research Methodology;
22 Mithila Folk Art: A Feminist Perspective; 23 Resisting Orientalism Through
Feminist Art in Turkey; 24 Doing Difficult Heritage, Performing Diasporic
Memory: Yoshiko Shimada and Haji Ohs Art of Affective Recall; PART 5:
Digital and Media Interventions for Gender Advocacy 25 Confronting Gender
Biases in Heritage Catalogues: A Natural Language Processing Approach to
Revisiting Descriptive Metadata; 26 Using Apps to Promote Women Artists and
Intervene in Gender Politics; 27 Intangible Cultural Heritage, Gender, and
Media: A Multimodal Content Analysis of the UNESCO Nomination Films; 28
Autonomous Archives: Reframing Feminist Heritage in the Context of COVID-19;
PART 6: Nationhood, Politics, and Gender 29 Nordic Gender Ideals and the
Viking Age: An Unresolved Legacy; 30 Feminist and Democratic Heritage:
Lessons from Spain; 31 Gendered Dimensions of Intangible Heritage in Europe:
The Political Pasts and Presents in Italy and Poland; 32 The politics of
erasure and making gendered heritage invisible in modern Iran; PART 7: Gender
in Heritage Leadership and Governance 33 Gender as Frontstage Issue and
Backstage Problem in Current Museum Practices and Research; 34 A Gendered
Transnational Analysis of Future Heritage through National Museums
Contemporary Art Collections: Mind the Gender Gap?; 35 Gender Perspectives in
the Governance of Cultural Heritage Institutions; PART 8: Futures of Feminist
and Queer Heritage 36 The Uses of Queer Heritage; 37 Critical Contexts and
Proposals for a Feminist Heritage Studies and Feminist Mnemopraxis; 38 Only
wives and mothers? A transnational feminist perspective on the representation
of women in UNESCOs World Heritage Convention and Convention for
Safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage; 39 Interpretation of Cultural
Heritage from a Gender Perspective: The Womens Legacy White Paper
Experience; 40 Development of Discourse on the Intersection of Heritage and
Gender within ICOMOS; Index.
Jenna C. Ashton is a Senior Lecturer in Heritage Studies, with a background in artmaking and writing, exhibition curation, creative producing, public engagement, and arts-education. Her multi-method and interdisciplinary research focuses on community-based practices, knowledges, economies, and critical literacies (also sometimes described as living heritage or intangible cultural heritage). Jennas work sits across feminist environmental humanities and critical heritage studies. Previous edited collections include Feminism and Museums Vol 1: Intervention, Disruption and Change (2017), Feminism and Museums Vol 2: Intervention, Disruption and Change (2018), and Anonymous Was a Woman: A Museums and Feminism Reader (2020). Jenna is also the founder and Creative Director of the arts and heritage organisation Digital Womens Archive North (DWAN, 2015), and creator of the 2017 manifesto, The Feminists Are Cackling in the Archive: A Manifesto for Feminist Archiving (or disruption).