2024/02/18 by Monbaron, Joana
#Critical spatial studies #Marxist feminism #Museum and gallery education #Reproductive labor
paper · doi:10.25757/invep.v14i2.369
Marginality and peripherality are redundant themes in the body of knowledge produced by critical museum and gallery educators across Europe. Drawing on a feminist spatial approach that permits to examine the politics of location in the museum as both actively implicated in, and an effect of, the process of gendering educational work as reproductive labor, the following article attempts to analyze the interrelation between the historical construction of museum education as a “feminized” practice, its subordination in the museum hierarchy and its physical peripheralization. This analysis allows to denaturalize implicit professional habits institutionalized over time. In considering repoliticized genealogies of museum and gallery education that resituate this field of practice within the history of social movements, this article also considers disobedient and imaginative strategies that take the aforementioned denaturalization process as a starting point for going beyond analyses and inventing other ways of instituting. Keywords: Museum and gallery education, reproductive labor, Marxist feminism, critical spatial studies