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The Discourse Of Female Identity, History, And Museums

Posted on:2013-09-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:T XinFull Text:PDF
GTID:2248330377456880Subject:Literature and art
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Nowadays, a state is deeply affected by museum. As one of the central sites which is born and maintained in modern times, museum is a remarkable character of human cultural landscape. And its function supersedes the way of spreading the knowledge of science and culture itself. As a reproduced system, the museum acts as the(a) vehicle and implement of transmission, which is formed by public conversations between collectors and visitors to control the process of visiting, indicating a style of intimate narrative process. In this kind of public territory which is composed by dialogue, the public communication of gender meanings become possible.Especially since the western New Faminism was emerged in1960s, the significance of museum in rebuilding female history and culture has been increasingly conspicuous. The world begins to focus on women’s identity, history, culture, and widely established museums about women’s living condition, creative work, and the history of civilization etc. In the intricate system that all kinds of museums construct together, women can intensify the connection with experience of life and temporarily get rid of the secondary gender image which is set under the concept of patriarchal stereotype. They can express themselves in a exoteric flowing way, hearing and exclaiming their own "voice". The access to this danger area helps them fight for the dominant speech related to the gender difference. The primary purpose of displaying in these museums is to indicate women’s own gender culture and historical reality, making visitors know the concept, the value and the vision of the social gender to appeal to more people joining to practice. Seeing becomes a kind of gender political activity. Visitors are not passive appreciators, but active elucidators and contructive creators, communicating gender meanings with the plotter of the exhibition at the same level, sharing the gender experience of women, and reach the sympathy and understanding to some extent. On that basis, the museum has been the gender space for state female identity and words. Therefore, it is necessary to entirely know female identity, history and the important impact of dialogue, to deeply explore, display, research and promote the culture of female museum, to promote the communication, understanding, respection, and development between two sexes, and absorb the experience of western female museum. This passage tries to start from arranging the development ways of female museums from at home and aboard, comparing the administration mode between Chinese and western museum, researching the standard of classification of domestic women museum, so as to find out the internal and external factors that formed the Chinese and western women culture difference, analyzing and summarizing the trajectory of women museum to present in depth. First of all, collecting amounts of information of women museum from at home and aboard, adopting research in chronological order, controlling these museums development in the whole way, grasping the actuality of contemporary domestic women museum by survey and research methods, summarizing the difference between Chinese and western women museums. Next, on the basis of accurately grasping the first hand information of internal and external women museum, putting forward with the standard of category of domestic women museum sysmatically, and checkout relative research results by using gender criticism and demonstration analyse. Through arranging and concluding different characters and functions of domestic women museum, summarizing the style of women museum and consider the actual condition of women museum, what’s more, the develop tendency of nowadays should be considered, and suggest the practical and perfect criteria, women’s identity, history and words should be emphasized to investigate. In addition, entirely conclude the theory of women museum and practice research results. Through summarizing research results of external women museum, carefully analyzing their characters and features, refining the instructional laws and features, to suggest from concept,mission, function, development, to promote our modern idea, to ascend the modern concept, broad our international horizon, to find the development ways of domestic women museums, and offer valuable experiences for developing women museums in our country.
Keywords/Search Tags:Gender identity, Female Museum, Representation
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