Houses of difference and glass: Dutch feminisms in the context of colonial exhibitions (1883–1898)
Feminism—as a term, movement, and discourse—has often been met with resistance in Southeast Asia, as illustrated by the recent special issue on feminism and art histories of the journal Southeast of Now. Tracing such contentious relationships to the rise of feminism in the Netherlands in the late...
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| author | Schneeweisz, Damiët Etta Aleida |
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| description | Feminism—as a term, movement, and discourse—has often been met with resistance
in Southeast Asia, as illustrated by the recent special issue on feminism and art
histories of the journal Southeast of Now. Tracing such contentious relationships to the
rise of feminism in the Netherlands in the late 19th century, particularly in relation to
two landmark exhibitions in 1883 and 1898, this dissertation questions the colonial
incentives embedded in Dutch feminist practice as well as the resistance the emerging
field of discourse received. While critical breaks in 20th and 21st century feminist
practice are well documented in the works of scholars like bell hooks, Audre Lorde
and Chandra Mohanty, the ways in which feminism itself was intertwined with
colonialism from its inception in the Netherlands in the late 19th century are less
studied. Yet the creation of a particular type of exhibition space—meant to represent
an Indonesian kampong and ‘inhabited’ with Indonesian workers—at the International
Colonial Exhibition (1883) and subsequent migration of this space to the National
Exhibition of Women’s Work (1898) resists that gap in recent studies of intellectual
histories. Understanding this phenomenon as a 19th century “augmented reality”—
defined in this thesis as a fabricated space wherein imagination and reality morphed: a
site where time, commodity and the Dutch East Indies became equated with
ideological activism—this study puts forward a complex, multifaceted account of early
feminisms in the Netherlands and their relationship with colonialism in Southeast
Asia. In doing so, this thesis repositions such early intellectual histories via a close
reading of physical manifestations and affective encounters in a specific exhibition
space. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1571052023-03-11T20:03:22Z Houses of difference and glass: Dutch feminisms in the context of colonial exhibitions (1883–1898) Schneeweisz, Damiët Etta Aleida - School of Art, Design and Media Jennifer Ray Burris jburris@ntu.edu.sg Visual arts and music::Art museums and galleries Feminism—as a term, movement, and discourse—has often been met with resistance in Southeast Asia, as illustrated by the recent special issue on feminism and art histories of the journal Southeast of Now. Tracing such contentious relationships to the rise of feminism in the Netherlands in the late 19th century, particularly in relation to two landmark exhibitions in 1883 and 1898, this dissertation questions the colonial incentives embedded in Dutch feminist practice as well as the resistance the emerging field of discourse received. While critical breaks in 20th and 21st century feminist practice are well documented in the works of scholars like bell hooks, Audre Lorde and Chandra Mohanty, the ways in which feminism itself was intertwined with colonialism from its inception in the Netherlands in the late 19th century are less studied. Yet the creation of a particular type of exhibition space—meant to represent an Indonesian kampong and ‘inhabited’ with Indonesian workers—at the International Colonial Exhibition (1883) and subsequent migration of this space to the National Exhibition of Women’s Work (1898) resists that gap in recent studies of intellectual histories. Understanding this phenomenon as a 19th century “augmented reality”— defined in this thesis as a fabricated space wherein imagination and reality morphed: a site where time, commodity and the Dutch East Indies became equated with ideological activism—this study puts forward a complex, multifaceted account of early feminisms in the Netherlands and their relationship with colonialism in Southeast Asia. In doing so, this thesis repositions such early intellectual histories via a close reading of physical manifestations and affective encounters in a specific exhibition space. Master of Arts (Museum Studies and Curatorial Practices) 2022-05-10T12:50:07Z 2022-05-10T12:50:07Z 2019 Thesis-Master by Coursework Schneeweisz, D. E. A. (2019). Houses of difference and glass: Dutch feminisms in the context of colonial exhibitions (1883–1898). Master's thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/157105 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/157105 en application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
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| title | Houses of difference and glass: Dutch feminisms in the context of colonial exhibitions (1883–1898) |
| title_full | Houses of difference and glass: Dutch feminisms in the context of colonial exhibitions (1883–1898) |
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| title_short | Houses of difference and glass: Dutch feminisms in the context of colonial exhibitions (1883–1898) |
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