Gendering the Nation Online Museum Exhibit
Created by the class of HIST 465 (Topics in Women's History) 2015-16
Queens University, Canada
Gender and Institutions
While at first they may seem that they don’t fit, together each of these topics represents how gender is influenced by and influences social institutions. Sexuality, gender performance and medical schools and practices are all explored through artifacts and images of these exhibits.
“Masculine and feminine roles are not biologically fixed but socially constructed.”
– Judith Butler
Asylums
The exhibit, Women of Asylums, intends to demonstrate and concentrate on the broader subject of gender within social institutions, while narrowing its focus to women within the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries in psychiatric facilities within North America.
Post Secondary Education
This room will explore women’s experiences in Canadian universities in the twentieth century. Women faced many more obstacles than men did when it came to higher education. First, there was the struggle for their admission into the male dominated intellectual realm. Even then, the problems didn’t stop there.
Prostitution
There is more to everything than meets the eye. ‘The oldest profession in the world’ is often used as a euphemism for prostitution. But why do we not refer to prostitution outright? Prostitution is often hidden as immoral and treated as a taboo subject, but even when it is not publicly acknowledged it affects the nation.
The Boy Scouts
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