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1 online resource (283 p.) |
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Routledge Research in Gender and Art Ser |
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Routledge Research in Gender and Art Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Collecting to Collectingism: New Directions in Women's Transcultural Practices -- PART I: Points of Trans-Cultural Exchange -- 1 Européenerie in Feminine Space: Qing Imperial Women and Collecting in the Long Eighteenth Century -- 2 Coerced Contact: The Dzungar Court Costume of a Swedish Crocheting Instructor -- 3 Trading Places: The Japanese Art Collection of O'Tama Kiyohara Ragusa |
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4 Created to Gleam: Decorum, Taste, and Luxury of Four Dresses from Viceregal Mexico -- PART II: Natural History, Colonial Encounters, and Indigenous Histories -- 5 The Botanist Was a Woman: Classifying and Collecting on the First French Circumnavigation of the Globe -- 6 Pineapple Lady: Expertise and Exoticism in Agnes Block's Self-Representation as Flora Batava -- 7 A Memsahib's ' Natural World': Lady Mary Impey's Collection of Indian Natural History Paintings -- 8 Women and Huipils: The Treasuring of an Indigenous Garment in New Spain |
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9 Colonial Pantomime: Maria I of Portugal's Human Cabinet of Curiosities -- PART III: Settlers, Immigrants, and New Frontiers -- 10 Settler Botanists, Nature's Gentlemen, and the Canadian Book of Nature: Catharine Parr Traill's Canadian Wild Flowers -- 11 Collecting Indian Art in Santa Fe: The Bryn Mawrters and the Politics of Preservation -- 12 The Spectacle of Sponsoring an Ottoman Trousseau -- 13 Las Bexareñas and Their Wills: Women's Material Culture and Cataloguing Practices in Spanish San Fernando de Béxar -- PART IV: Recovery, Collaboration, and Repatriation |
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14 "He Surely Existed": Women of the Folk Art Collecting Movement and Thomas W. Commeraw, Forgotten African-American Potter -- 15 Adjacency in the Collection -- 16 Collecting Fibre Arts in Arnhem Land -- 17 From Women's Hands: Learning from Métis Women's Collections -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Collectors and collecting
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Women collectors
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Museum objects
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Collectors and collecting.
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Museum objects.
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Women collectors.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000781410 |
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1000781410 |
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