Women, Collecting, and Cultures Beyond Europe

Collecting to Collectingism: New Directions in Women's Transcultural Practices

Arlene Leis

Part 1: Points of Transcultural Exchange

1. Europeenerie in Feminine Space: Qing Imperial Women and Collecting in China's Long Eighteenth Century

Chih-En Chen

2. Coerced Contact: The Dzungar Court Costume of a Swedish Knitting Instructor

Lisa Hellman

3. Trading Places: The Japanese Art Collection of O'Tama Kiyohara Ragusa

Maria Antonietta Spadaro

4. Created to Gleam: Decorum, Taste and Luxury of Four Dresses from Viceregal Mexico

Martha Sandoval-Villegas and Laura Garcia-Vedrenne

Part 2: Natural History, Colonial Encounters, and Indigenous Histories

5. The Botanist Was a Woman: Classifying and Collecting on the First French Circumnavigation of the Globe

Glynis Ridley

6. Pineapple Lady: Expertise and Exoticism in Agnes Block's Self-Representation as Flora Batava

Catherine Powell-Warren

7. A Memsahib's 'Natural World': Lady Mary Impey's Collection of Indian Natural History Paintings

Apurba Chatterjee

8. Women and Huipils: The Treasuring of an Indigenous Garment in New Spain

Martha Sandoval-Villegas

9. Colonial Pantomime: Queen Marie I of Portugal's Human Cabinet of Curiosities

Agnieszka Anna Ficek

Part 3: Settlers, Immigrants and New Frontiers

10. Settler Botanists, Nature's Gentlemen, and the Canadian Book of Nature: Catharine Parr Traill's Canadian Wild Flowers

Cynthia Sugars

11. Collecting Indian Art in Santa Fe: The Bryn Mawrters and the Politics of Preservation

Nancy Owen Lewis

12. The Spectacle of Sponsoring an Ottoman Trousseau

Gwendolyn Collaco

13. Las Bexarenas and their Wills: Women's Material Culture and Cataloguing Practices in Spanish San Fernando de Bexar

Amy M. Porter

Part 4: Recovery, Collaboration, and Repatriation

14. 'He Surely Existed': Women of the Early Folk Art Collecting Movement and Thomas W. Commeraw, Forgotten African-American Potter

Brandt Zipp

15. Adjacency in the Collection

Toby Upson

16. Collecting Fibre Arts in Arnhem Land

Louise Hamby

17. From Women's Hands: Learning from Metis Women's Collections

Angela Fey and Maureen Matthews