Arlene Leis
Part 1: Points of Transcultural Exchange
1. Européenerie in Feminine Space: Qing Imperial Women and Collecting in China’s Long Eighteenth Century
Chih-En Chen
2. Coerced Contact: The Dzungar Court Costume of a Swedish Knitting Instructor
Lisa Hellman
3. Trading Places: The Japanese Art Collection of O’Tama Kiyohara Ragusa
Maria Antonietta Spadaro
4. Created to Gleam: Decorum, Taste and Luxury of Four Dresses from Viceregal Mexico
Martha Sandoval-Villegas and Laura Garcia-Vedrenne
Part 2: Natural History, Colonial Encounters, and Indigenous Histories
5. The Botanist Was a Woman: Classifying and Collecting on the First French Circumnavigation of the Globe
Glynis Ridley
6. Pineapple Lady: Expertise and Exoticism in Agnes Block’s Self-Representation as Flora Batava
Catherine Powell-Warren
7. A Memsahib’s ‘Natural World’: Lady Mary Impey’s Collection of Indian Natural History Paintings
Apurba Chatterjee
8. Women and Huipils: The Treasuring of an Indigenous Garment in New Spain
Martha Sandoval-Villegas
9. Colonial Pantomime: Queen Marie I of Portugal’s Human Cabinet of Curiosities
Agnieszka Anna Ficek
Part 3: Settlers, Immigrants and New Frontiers
10. Settler Botanists, Nature’s Gentlemen, and the Canadian Book of Nature: Catharine Parr Traill’s Canadian Wild Flowers
Cynthia Sugars
11. Collecting Indian Art in Santa Fe: The Bryn Mawrters and the Politics of Preservation
Nancy Owen Lewis
12. The Spectacle of Sponsoring an Ottoman Trousseau
Gwendolyn Collaço
13. Las Bexareñas and their Wills: Women’s Material Culture and Cataloguing Practices in Spanish San Fernando de Béxar
Amy M. Porter
Part 4: Recovery, Collaboration, and Repatriation
14. 'He Surely Existed': Women of the Early Folk Art Collecting Movement and Thomas W. Commeraw, Forgotten African-American Potter
Brandt Zipp
15. Adjacency in the Collection
Toby Upson
16. Collecting Fibre Arts in Arnhem Land
Louise Hamby
17. From Women’s Hands: Learning from Métis Women’s Collections
Angela Fey and Maureen Matthews
Biography
Arlene Leis is an independent art historian who received her PhD from University of York.
