Women, collecting, and cultures beyond Europe /
"This book examines collecting around the world and how women have participated in and formed collections globally. The edited volume builds on recent research and offers a wider lens through which to examine women's collecting histories. Spanning from the seventeenth century to the twenty...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2023
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| Series: | Routledge Research in Gender and Art
Routledge research in gender and art |
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Table of Contents:
- Collecting to collectingism : new directions in womens' transcultural perspectives / Arlene Leis
- Part I. Points of trans-cultural exchange
- Européenerie in feminine space : Qing imperial women and collecting in the long eighteenth century / Chih-en Chen
- Coerced contact : the Dzungar court costume of a Swedish crocheting instructor / Lisa Hellman
- Trading places : the Japanese art collection of O'Tama Kiyohara Ragusa / Maria Antonietta Spadaro
- Created to gleam : decorum, taste, and luxury of four dresses from viceregal Mexico / Laura Garcia-Vedrenne and Martha Sandoval-Villegas
- Part II. Natural history, colonial encounters, and indigenous histories
- The botanist was a woman : classifying and collecting on the first French circumnavigation of the globe / Glynis Ridley
- Pineapple lady : expertise and exoticism in Agnes Block's self-representation as Flora Batava / Catherine Powell-Warren
- A memsahibs 'natural world' : Lady Mary Impey's collection of Indian natural history paintings / Apurba Chatterjee
- Women and huipils : the treasuring of an indigenous garment in New Spain / Martha Sandoval-Villegas
- Colonial pantomime : Maria I of Portugal's human cabinet of curiosities / Agnieszka Anna Ficek
- Part III. Settlers, immigrants, and new frontiers
- Settler botanists, nature's gentlemen, and the Canadian book of nature : Catharine Parr Traill's Canadian Wild Flowers / Cynthia Sugars
- Collecting Indian art in Santa Fe : the Bryn Mawrters and the politics of preservation / Nancy Owen Lewis
- The spectacle of sponsoring an Ottoman trousseau / Gwen Collaço
- Las Bexareñas and their wills : women's material culture and cataloguing practices in Spanish San Fernando de Béxar / Amy M. Porter
- Part IV. Recovery, collaboration, and repatriation
- "He surely existed" : women of the folk art collecting movement and Thomas W. Commeraw, forgotten African-American potter / Brandt Zipp
- Adjacency in the collection / Toby Upson
- Collecting fibre arts in Arnhem land / Louise Hamby
- From women's hands : learning from Métis women's collections / Angela Fey and Maureen Matthews
- Collecting to collectingism : new directions in womens' transcultural perspectives / Arlene Leis
- Part I. Points of trans-cultural exchange
- Européenerie in feminine space : Qing imperial women and collecting in the long eighteenth century / Chih-en Chen
- Coerced contact : the Dzungar court costume of a Swedish crocheting instructor / Lisa Hellman
- Trading places : the Japanese art collection of O'Tama Kiyohara Ragusa / Maria Antonietta Spadaro
- Created to gleam : decorum, taste, and luxury of four dresses from viceregal Mexico / Laura Garcia-Vedrenne and Martha Sandoval-Villegas
- Part II. Natural history, colonial encounters, and indigenous histories
- The botanist was a woman : classifying and collecting on the first French circumnavigation of the globe / Glynis Ridley
- Pineapple lady : expertise and exoticism in Agnes Block's self-representation as Flora Batava / Catherine Powell-Warren
- A memsahibs 'natural world' : Lady Mary Impey's collection of Indian natural history paintings / Apurba Chatterjee
- Women and huipils : the treasuring of an indigenous garment in New Spain / Martha Sandoval-Villegas
- Colonial pantomime : Maria I of Portugal's human cabinet of curiosities / Agnieszka Anna Ficek
- Part III. Settlers, immigrants, and new frontiers
- Settler botanists, nature's gentlemen, and the Canadian book of nature : Catharine Parr Traill's Canadian Wild Flowers / Cynthia Sugars
- Collecting Indian art in Santa Fe : the Bryn Mawrters and the politics of preservation / Nancy Owen Lewis
- The spectacle of sponsoring an Ottoman trousseau / Gwen Collaço
- Las Bexareñas and their wills : women's material culture and cataloguing practices in Spanish San Fernando de Béxar / Amy M. Porter
- Part IV. Recovery, collaboration, and repatriation
- "He surely existed" : women of the folk art collecting movement and Thomas W. Commeraw, forgotten African-American potter / Brandt Zipp
- Adjacency in the collection / Toby Upson
- Collecting fibre arts in Arnhem land / Louise Hamby
- From women's hands : learning from Métis women's collections / Angela Fey and Maureen Matthews