Gender and Heritage brings together a group of international scholars to examine the performance, place and politics of gender within heritage. It provides a range of innovative approaches to using gender as a mode of enquiry.

Introduction; Chapter One: The tyranny of the normal and the importance of being liminal; Chapter Two: Johanna, Moa and I'm Every Lesbian. Gender, sexuality and class in Norrköping's industrial landscape; Chapter Three: Gender, Heritage and Changing Traditions: Russian Old Believers in Romania; Chapter Four: Handicrafting Gender: Craft, Performativity and Cultural Heritage; Chapter Five: Naturing Gender and Gendering Nature in Museums; Chapter Six: It's a man's world. Or is it? The 'Pilgrim Fathers', religion, patriarchy, nationalism, and tourism; Chapter Seven: The Fleshyness of Absence: The matter of absence in a feminist museology; Chapter Eight: Taller than the rest: The Three Dikgosi Monument, Masculinity Reloaded; Chapter Nine: Exploring Identities through Feminist Pedagogy; Chapter Ten: Impasse or productive intersection? Learning to 'mess with genies' in collaborative heritage research relationships; Chapter Eleven: Transversal dances across time and space: feminist strategies for a critical heritage studies; Chapter Twelve: Gendering 'the other Germany': Resistant and Residual Narratives on Stauffenbergstraße, Berlin; Chapter Thirteen: Gender and Intangible Heritage: Illustrating the Inter-disciplinary Character of International Law; Chapter Fourteen: Women of Steel at the Sparrows Point Steel Mill, Baltimore, USA; Chapter Fifteen: 'Does it matter?' Relocating fragments of queer heritage in post-earthquake Christchurch; Chapter Sixteen: The politics of heritage