The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender offers an exceptional range of international contributions that interrogate and analyse the interactions within - and between - heritage and gender.

Taking an intersectional and global approach, the Handbook opens up space for a more critical and situated consideration of how gender comes into contact with heritage as a concept and practice. The volume considers heritage in the broadest sense: as a concept, performance, and materialization. The contributions also consider how heritage impacts identity, power, people, values, politics, and ethics, as well as processes and sites across material culture, nature, and intangible practices. The volume and its contributions are inclusive of Cisgender, Trans, Non-Binary, Agender, and Intersex identities. Reflecting the multidisciplinary and transnational voices of its authors, the collection challenges readers to consider what a focused analysis of heritage and gender can offer Heritage Studies as an evolving discipline and field of study.

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender will be of interest to academics and students working in Heritage Studies, Museum Studies, Art History, History, Anthropology, Gender and Women’s Studies and International Development.

Dr Jenna C. Ashton is a Senior Lecturer in Heritage Studies, University of Manchester. She is an arts practice researcher working on cultural analysis and theory at the nexus between community heritage, ecologies, place, and social and environmental justice. She has a background in artmaking, exhibition curation, creative producing, and arts-education. Previous edited collections include Feminism and Museums Vol 1: Intervention, Disruption and Change (2017), Feminism and Museums Vol 2: Intervention, Disruption and Change (2018), and Anonymous Was a Woman: A Museums and Feminism Reader (2020). Her monograph, Urban Communities and Climate Justice: Insights from Arts-Practice Research, is forthcoming.