Fashioning Victorian Femininity in UK Museums

在二十世纪，博物馆是维多利亚时代概念化和观看的场所。这项研究调查了英国博物馆如何在1930年至1990年之间概念化维多利亚时代的服装和女性之间的关系，这一时期女性和服装的历史都发生了根本性的转变。它忽略了记录曼彻斯特的科斯沃斯美术馆、巴斯的科斯沃斯博物馆、约克城堡博物馆、唐卡斯特的库斯沃斯大厅博物馆、船体博物馆、苏格兰国家博物馆和布莱顿和霍韦博物馆的档案材料。通过分析博物馆如何收集和展示维多利亚时代的女性服装，它揭示了博物馆如何参与更广泛的话语维多利亚时代的女性气质，性和性别和contextualises鲜为人知的维多利亚时代的服装收藏。它对博物馆中女性的表现历史做出了重要贡献，并产生了第一部关于博物馆女性服装的历史。

During the twentieth century, museums were sites in which the Victorian era was conceptualised and viewed. Thisresearch investigates how UK museums conceptualised the relationship between Victorian dress and femininitybetween 1930-1990, a period that saw a radical shift in how histories of both women and dress were interpreted. Itexamines neglected archival material that document practices at the Gallery of Costume (Manchester), TheMuseum of Costume (Bath), York Castle Museum, Cusworth Hall Museum (Doncaster), Hull Museums, The NationalMuseums of Scotland and Brighton & Hove Museums. By analysing how the museums collected and displayedVictorian women's dress, it reveals how museums engaged with wider discourses on Victorian femininity, sexualityand gender and contextualises lesser-known collections of Victorian dress. It makes an important contribution tohistories of how women are represented in museums and produces the first history of the curation of Victorianwomen's dress.