Materializing Gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe

Neuauflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4724-5631-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 250 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 752 g

Reihe: The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950

Art history has enriched the study of material culture as a scholarly field. This interdisciplinary volume enhances this literature through the contributors' engagement with gender as the conceptual locus of analysis in terms of femininity, masculinity, and the spaces in between. Collectively, these essays by art historians and museum professionals argue for a more complex understanding of the relationship between objects and subjects in gendered terms. The objects under consideration range from the quotidian to the exotic, including beds, guns, fans, needle paintings, prints, drawings, mantillas, almanacs, reticules, silver punch bowls, and collage. These material goods may have been intended to enforce and affirm gendered norms, however as the essays demonstrate, their use by subjects frequently put normative formations of gender into question, revealing the impossibility of permanently fixing gender in relation to material goods, concepts, or bodies. This book will appeal to art historians, museum professionals, women's and gender studies specialists, students, and all those interested in the history of objects in everyday life.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Germann, Jennifer G.

Strobel, Heidi A

Strobel, Heidi A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstsammlung, Museen, Ausstellungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Barock, Klassizismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents to come

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer G. Germann is Assistant Professor of Art History, Ithaca College, USA.

Heidi A. Strobel is Associate Professor of Art History, University of Evansville, USA.