From women's hands : learning from Metis women's collections / Angela Fey and Maureen Matthews. Part I. Points of trans-cultural exchange -- Europeenerie 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 Collacʹo -- Las Bexarenas and their wills : women's material culture and cataloguing practices in Spanish San Fernando de Bexar / 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 Metis women's collections / Angela Fey and Maureen Matthews.
Summary:
"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-first (although not organized chronologically) the research herein extends beyond European geographies and studies to consider how artificiallia and naturallia were collected, transported, exchanged, and/or displayed beyond Europe. Some authors focus mainly on what was collected, while others consider taxonomies, markets and display. This book amplifies women's voices, and positions their collecting practices in relation to distinct cultures, customs, and beliefs as well as exposing the challenges women faced when carving a place for themselves within global networks. This study will be of interest to scholars working in art history, collections and collecting, women's studies, material and visual cultures, Indigenous studies, textile histories, global studies, scientific history, social and cultural histories"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.