Open AccessMuseer, kön och genus - några reflektioner kring en närvarande frånvaro
Author(s) -
Marianne Bäckman,
Simon Ekström
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
nordisk museologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2002-0503
pISSN - 1103-8152
DOI - 10.5617/nm.3130
Subject(s) - notice , selection (genetic algorithm) , genus , point (geometry) , humanities , genealogy , sociology , art , history , political science , zoology , law , computer science , biology , artificial intelligence , mathematics , geometry
Museums, sex and gender – some reflections on a current absence. Abstract: What is it that makes women and objects coded by women so often over- shadowed in museums? And why is it so easy not to notice this fact? The article aims to discuss the amount of selection and de-selection that results in women only having a limited presence in the museum arena, so that they easily disappear from view – despite the fact that this is an absence that plays out before our very eyes. The starting point is a gender audit carried out in 2007 at the Museum of Ethno- graphy in Stockholm, and the article provides a re-examination of some of the comments that came to light.