Carry on Collecting: Sex, Gender and Ethnography at Manchester Museum

Ethnographic collections formed in Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were invariably informed by contemporaneous notions of gender and sex. The chiefly male collectors misrepresented and misappropriated objects associated with concepts of gender and sex, found beyond Europe, to fit their own particular colonialist world view. Sex was inextricably associated with child birth, women with domesticity and men with warfare and violence. This ethnocentric paradigm was reproduced in museum displays and interpretation. This talk is part of the Wellcome Collection’s Sexology Season www.wellcomecollection.org/sexologyseason

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Source: http://www.culture24.org.uk//nw000145?id=EVENT517012