Educating Epistemic Justice and Resistance Through the Feminist Museum Hack: Looking and Acting with Another Eye. Issue 1 (2nd January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Clover, Darlene E.; Sanford, Kathy
• Is Part Of: Museum international. Volume 72:Issue 1/2(2020)
• Page Start: 56
• Page End: 67
• Publication Date: 2020-01-02
• Subjects: Feminist Museum Hack -- Epistemic resistance -- Epistemic (in)justice -- Feminist adult education -- Imagination; Museums -- Periodicals; 069.05
• DOI: 10.1080/13500775.2020.1743057
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1350-0775

Abstract

Abstract: Museums do not simply reflect the world; they shape and mobilise our seeing and thus knowing of the world. As highly trusted, authoritative institutions, museums educate a common sense of historical, social, aesthetic and cultural value. Despite efforts to change, feminist cultural theorists remind us that women in all their diversity continue to be excluded or problematically imagined in stereotypical ways in museum representations and discourses. These epistemologies of mastery hide in plain sight to preserve and perpetuate the hermeneutical gap of gendered epistemic injustice. This article describes the Feminist Museum Hack, an adaptable, methodological, analytical, and interventionist feminist adult education tool we have designed to develop a feminist oppositional gaze that can see that which does not wish to be seen. We illustrate how museums can act as critical spaces of feminist teaching and learning to render visible and challenge epistemic gender injustice and encourage the resistant imagination.