Traveling heritages : new perspectives on collecting, preserving, and sharing women's history
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Traveling heritages : new perspectives on collecting, preserving, and sharing women's history
Aksant, 2008
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Whose heritage do we collect and preserve, and how and why? Who has access to this information, and who does not? Archives and libraries are not free of biases and neither is writing history an objective process. The criteria used to collect heritage materials are changing continuously. In addition, the materials that are preserved for their historical value are increasingly available in digital form. In this volume, heritage preservation experts from the Netherlands and abroad discuss the current state of the field of heritage preservation with regard to women's history and the relationship between men and women The view that heritage preservation is a dynamic rather than a static activity is a crucial development. In this book, the contributors explore the goals and ambitions as well as the actual practice of what they have called 'traveling heritages'. Cultural heritage is not static but is influenced by developments in society. Cultural heritage is changed by how users interact with it. New forms of media offer different possibilities for ensuring that cultural heritage reflects the history and experience of all groups in society. The history of women and migrants is often absent in libraries and archives because these institutions usually focus their attention on collecting and preserving written materials, publications and photographs. Libraries and archives can reflect multicultural social realities by including personal histories from diverse perspectives in their collections. New interpretations of objects also contribute to creating a more contemporary vision about what constitutes cultural heritage.
Table of Contents
Traveling Heritages - 2[-]Table of Contents - 6[-]The (Sexual) Revolution of the Amsterdam Women's Archives and Library - 10[-]Part I Preserving the Heritage of Women's Movements - 22[-] The iav/iiav's Archival Policy and Practice Seventy Years of Collecting, Receiving, and Refusing Women's Archives (1935-2005) - 24[-] Flatirons and the Folds of History On Archives, Cultural Heritage and Colonial Legacies - 48[-] On Retrieving Women's Cultural Heritage Especially the History of Women's Movements in Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe - 66[-] The Potential of the Feminist 'Suitcase' Preservation, Time(s) and Embodiment of Women's Heritage - 80[-]Part II Old versus New Media - 92[-] Imaging Women's History at the iiav The 'Visual Turn' - 94[-] From Physical to Digital The Impact of Information and Communications Technologies at the iiav - 108[-] 'World Became One Village' How Women's History Can Use New Media - 120[-] Coming Full Circle A History of the iiav's International Work - 132[-] The (Un)Bearable Existence of Libraries and Books The iiav in Transition - 150[-] The Feminist Magazine An Empowerment Tool - 164[-]Part III Identity, Citizenship and Archives - 184[-] Passing on 'Invisible' Histories New Media and the Cultural Heritage of Immigrant Women in the Netherlands - 186[-] The Cultural Heritage of Women in Multicultural Dutch Society - 200[-] Pioneering New Feminist Organizing Affinity Groups and the Creation of the European Feminist Forum - 214[-] Dance Around the Camera Experiences with Recording Video Oral History from the Second Wave Women's Movement - 230[-] The Mission of the iiav in Secondary Education - 244[-] The Life and Times of Academic Feminism Checking the Vital Signs of Women's and Gender Studies - 264[-] The Gender of Patrimonial Pride Changes in Historical Culture and the Revitalization of National Canons in the West - 286[-]About the Authors - 304
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