List of Figures
List of Contributors
Introduction
Dr Jenna C. Ashton
PART 1: Materiality and Performance of Gender
1 Gendering Material Objects in Heritage Practice
James Daybell and Kit Heyam
2 Bridal Ornaments and Heritage Performances in India: The Case of Kanchipuram Silk Saree and Temple Bridal Jewellery
Athira B.K.
3 Queerly Intersectional at the Dawn of Heritage Preservation: Judah Touro
Barry L. Stiefel
4 Women’s Stories Unheard in the Military Border Zone: Kitchen Storytelling as Methodology
Gabriela Fatková
5 Safeguarding Bulgarian Applied Folk Art : The Work of Helene Oucheff
Georgeta Nazarska
6 The (Miss) Representation of Women in European Prehistory Museum Displays: Breaking the Glass Display Case
Felicity A. McDowall
PART 2: Gendered Heritage Landscapes
7 The Representation of Rosa Parks on the American Civil Rights Memorial Landscape: "Trapped on the Bus"
Anne Stokes
8 Gender and Heritage at Home at the Pankhurst Centre and Potter’s Hill Top
Helen Antrobus and Tessa Chynoweth
9 A Queer Manipulation of the Sheats-Goldstein House: ‘Quite a pad you got here, man’
Olivier Vallerand
10 Contested Transcultural Spaces: The Mother Goddess Religion’s Sacred Sites and Rituals in Huế City, Vietnam
Phi Nguyen
11 Heritage Interpretation and First-Person Narratives: Producing a Feminist Reading of Cultural Landscapes
Elena Settimini
12 An Ethnoarchaeology of Precolonial Gold Mining and the Role of Women in Eastern Zimbabwe
Njabulo Chipangura
13 Industrial Archaeologies of Edna Lumb and Angela Croome: Curating Aggregate
Catriona McAra
PART 3: Violence as Gender Heritage
14 Sexual Violence in Premodern South Asian Literature: Unsavory Heritage
Anisha Saxena
15 Trauma, Memory, and Identity of Women in the Cambodia Diaspora
Azra Rashid
16 Overwritten Memories: The Representation of Sexual Violence in the Arts and Memory Space Fragmentos
Catalina Delgado Rojas, Ailsa Peate, and Valeria Posada Villada
17 The Women Behind The Door: The Casa de la Memoria Kaji Tulam and the Reinterpretation of Guatemalan History
Ignacio Sarmiento
18 Women’s Monumental Activism: Statues that Matter
Elke Krasny
PART 4: Arts-led Methodologies for Remembrance and Activation
19 The Performative Legacies of the Women’s Peace Camp at Greenham Common: Beyond Monuments
Alexandra Kokoli
20 The Illustrator in the Archive of Katie Gliddon
Mireille Fauchon
21 Recovering the Excluded Women in English Folk and Calendar Customs: Social Art as a Research Methodology
Lucy Wright
22 Mithila Folk Art: A Feminist Perspective
Prachi Priyanka
23 Resisting Orientalism through Feminist Art in Turkey
Elif Dastarlı and F. Melis Cin
24 Doing Difficult Heritage, Performing Diasporic Memory: Yoshiko Shimada and Haji Oh’s Art of Affective Recall
Eliza Tan
PART 5: Digital and Media Interventions for Gender Advocacy
25 Confronting Gender Biases in Heritage Catalogues: A Natural Language Processing Approach to Revisiting Descriptive Metadata
Lucy Havens, Beatrice Alex, and Melissa Terras
26 Using Apps to Promote Women Artists and Intervene in Gender Politics
Ana-Maria Herman
27 Intangible Cultural Heritage, Gender, and Media: A Multimodal Content Analysis of the UNESCO Nomination Films
Carmen Alvaro
28 Autonomous Archives: Reframing Feminist Heritage in the Context of COVID-19
Lucy Brownson, Laura Gibbs, Jenny Kirton, and Sophie Whittle
PART 6: Nationhood, Politics, and Gender
29 Nordic Gender Ideals and the Viking Age: An Unresolved Legacy
Marianne Moen
30 Feminist and Democratic Heritage: Lessons from Spain
Cristina Nualart
31 Gendered Dimensions of Intangible Heritage in Europe: The Political Pasts and Presents in Italy and Poland
Magdalena Buchczyk
32 The Politics of Erasure and Making Gendered Heritage Invisible in Modern Iran
Maryam Dezhamkhooy and Leila Papoli-Yazdi
PART 7: Gender in Heritage Leadership and Governance
33 Gender as Frontstage Issue and Backstage Problem in Current Museum Practices and Research
Hans Dam Christensen, Eva Pina Myrczik, and Lise Skytte Jakobsen
34 A Gendered Transnational Analysis of Future Heritage through National Museums’ Contemporary Art Collections: Mind the Gender Gap?
Helen Gørrill
35 Gender Perspectives in the Governance of Cultural Heritage Institutions
Olga Kolokytha and Raffaela Gmeiner
PART 8: Futures of Feminist and Queer Heritage
36 The Uses of Queer Heritage
Visa Immonen
37 Critical Contexts and Proposals for a Feminist Heritage Studies and Feminist Mnemopraxis
Alison Bartlett and Margaret Henderson
38 Only Wives and Mothers? A Transnational Feminist Perspective on the Representation of Women in UNESCO’s World Heritage Convention and Convention for Safeguarding the Intangible Cultural Heritage
Vanessa Whittington
39 Interpretation of Cultural Heritage from a Gender Perspective: The Women’s Legacy White Paper Experience
Amaia Apraiz-Sahagún, Aintzane Eguilior-Mancisidor, and Ainara Martínez-Matía
40 Development of Discourse on the Intersection of Heritage and Gender within ICOMOS
Saranya Dharshini, Bénédicte Selfslagh, Gabriel Caballero, Diane Archibald, Ananya Bhattacharya, Shalini Dasgupta, Edson Cabalfin, and Jordi Tresserras
Index
Biography
Jenna C. Ashton is a Senior Lecturer in Heritage Studies, with a background in artmaking and writing, exhibition curation, creative producing, public engagement, and arts-education. Her multi-method and interdisciplinary research focuses on community-based practices, knowledges, economies, and critical literacies (also sometimes described as “living heritage” or “intangible cultural heritage”). Jenna’s work sits across feminist environmental humanities and critical heritage studies. Previous edited collections include Feminism and Museums Vol 1: Intervention, Disruption and Change (2017), Feminism and Museums Vol 2: Intervention, Disruption and Change (2018), and Anonymous Was a Woman: A Museums and Feminism Reader (2020). Jenna is also the founder and Creative Director of the arts and heritage organisation Digital Women’s Archive North (DWAN, 2015–), and creator of the 2017 manifesto, The Feminists Are Cackling in the Archive: A Manifesto for Feminist Archiving (or disruption).
