Women and Museums 1850-1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge (Gender in History)

by KateHill (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2016

  $91.77

  This is the first attempt to recover the entirety of women's contribution to British museums in the period 1850-1914. It sheds lights on women as museum workers, donors and visitors, demonstrates that through such roles women profoundly influenced the development of museums in the period and suggests that museums were a key site for the development of modern gendered identities --Back cover.