Kate Hill is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Lincoln

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction1. Inside the museum: including or excluding women?2. Outside the museum: women as donors and vendors3. Outside the museum: women's donations, materiality and the museum object4. Women visiting museums5. Women as patrons: the limits of agency? 6. New disciplines: archaeology, anthropology and women in museums7. Ruskin, women and museums: service and salvageConclusionBibliographyIndex

‘Kate Hill’s Women and Museums, 1850–1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge, part of Manchester University Press’s Gender in History series, is not only a masterful work of historical scholarship and careful theoretical, historiographical, and methodological intervention, but also a bracingly relevant and important book. In her sophisticated and nuanced treatment of gender and museums (including all kinds of collections, in all kinds of institutional settings), Hill makes a remarkable contribution that deserves to be read by all those interested in Victorian history and gender, as well as those specifically studying museums and collections. Crucially, her work also helps us think about the interactions between gender, power, and knowledge production in our own day. What comes out of this remarkable study, then, is a new way to appreciate the extraordinarily malleable and fascinating space that is the modern museum, in all of its many guises.’Amy Woodson-Boulton, Loyola Marymount University, Victorian Studies, Vol 60, No. 3

Kate Hill is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Lincoln

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction1. Inside the museum: including or excluding women?2. Outside the museum: women as donors and vendors3. Outside the museum: women's donations, materiality and the museum object4. Women visiting museums5. Women as patrons: the limits of agency? 6. New disciplines: archaeology, anthropology and women in museums7. Ruskin, women and museums: service and salvageConclusionBibliographyIndex

‘Kate Hill’s Women and Museums, 1850–1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge, part of Manchester University Press’s Gender in History series, is not only a masterful work of historical scholarship and careful theoretical, historiographical, and methodological intervention, but also a bracingly relevant and important book. In her sophisticated and nuanced treatment of gender and museums (including all kinds of collections, in all kinds of institutional settings), Hill makes a remarkable contribution that deserves to be read by all those interested in Victorian history and gender, as well as those specifically studying museums and collections. Crucially, her work also helps us think about the interactions between gender, power, and knowledge production in our own day. What comes out of this remarkable study, then, is a new way to appreciate the extraordinarily malleable and fascinating space that is the modern museum, in all of its many guises.’Amy Woodson-Boulton, Loyola Marymount University, Victorian Studies, Vol 60, No. 3

Kate Hill is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Lincoln

• List of figuresAcknowledgementsList of abbreviationsIntroduction1. Inside the museum: including or excluding women?2. Outside the museum: women as donors and vendors3. Outside the museum: women's donations, materiality and the museum object4. Women visiting museums5. Women as patrons: the limits of agency? 6. New disciplines: archaeology, anthropology and women in museums7. Ruskin, women and museums: service and salvageConclusionBibliographyIndex

‘Kate Hill’s Women and Museums, 1850–1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge, part of Manchester University Press’s Gender in History series, is not only a masterful work of historical scholarship and careful theoretical, historiographical, and methodological intervention, but also a bracingly relevant and important book. In her sophisticated and nuanced treatment of gender and museums (including all kinds of collections, in all kinds of institutional settings), Hill makes a remarkable contribution that deserves to be read by all those interested in Victorian history and gender, as well as those specifically studying museums and collections. Crucially, her work also helps us think about the interactions between gender, power, and knowledge production in our own day. What comes out of this remarkable study, then, is a new way to appreciate the extraordinarily malleable and fascinating space that is the modern museum, in all of its many guises.’Amy Woodson-Boulton, Loyola Marymount University, Victorian Studies, Vol 60, No. 3