Women’s museums today: their creation, objectives and contribution to history

Auteurs-es

  • Irene Vaquinhas Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
 Largo da Porta Férrea
 3004-530 Coimbra
 (Portugal)

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.30827/arenal.v26i1.5572

Mots-clés :

Women’s and gender museums, Gender museology, Women’s and gender history, Memory, Feminism, Visibility of women

Résumé

This paper provides an overview of the main women’s museums existing worldwide, taking as its source the International Association of Women’s Museums. It also explores the history of their creation and problematises their relationship with women’s history and the concept of gender museology. It examines the principal vectors, missions and strategic lines of this category of museum and the structural themes of their respective permanent exhibitions, assessing the main approaches that have been identified for applying gender concepts to museum space.

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Biographie de l'auteur-e

Irene Vaquinhas, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra
 Largo da Porta Férrea
 3004-530 Coimbra
 (Portugal)

Professora Catedrática

Departamento de História, Estudos Europeus, Arqueologia e artes da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)

Références

Atienza, Maria Bolaños. 2011. Las mujeres en los museos: entre museólogas y coleccionistas. In Patrimonio en femenino. Madrid: Ministerio de la Cultura, 36-41 (http://www.mcu.es/museos/MC/PatrimonioFemenino/) (28-04-2013; 09.14).

Castellano, Cristina. 2014B. Musée de la femme? Hégémonies, frontières et aliances culturelles en muséographie contemporaine. Journées d´ètudes des doctorantes, Le Centre de Recherche en Études Féminines et de Genre, CRESPPA-GTM, Université de Paris 8 Juin 2012 (https://www.academia.edu/1776644/Musée_de_la_femme_Hégémonies_frontières_et_alliances_culturelles_en_muséographie_contemporaine; 29-04-2015; 15.05).

Vaquinhas, Irene. 2014. “Museus do feminino, museologia de género e o contributo da história”, MIDAS [Online], 2014, pp. 1-13 URL : http://midas.revues.org/603 ; DOI : 10.4000/midas.603. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/midas.603

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Publié-e

2019-06-12

Comment citer

Vaquinhas, I. (2019). Women’s museums today: their creation, objectives and contribution to history. Arenal. Revista De Historia De Las Mujeres, 26(1), 275–297. https://doi.org/10.30827/arenal.v26i1.5572