Overview
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.
- | Author: Kate Hill
- | Publisher: Manchester University Press
- | Publication Date: Jun 21, 2016
- | Number of Pages: 272 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Hardcover/History
- | ISBN-10: 0719081157
- | ISBN-13: 9780719081156
