Women, Collecting, and Cultures Beyond Europe (Routledge Research in Gender and Art)

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
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
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
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