The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender offers an exceptional range of international contributions that interrogate and analyse the interactions within - and between - heritage and gender.

Jenna C. Ashton is a Senior Lecturer in Heritage Studies, with a background in artmaking and writing, exhibition curation, creative producing, public engagement, and arts-education. Her multi-method and interdisciplinary research focuses on community-based practices, knowledges, economies, and critical literacies (also sometimes described as "living heritage" or "intangible cultural heritage"). Jenna's work sits across feminist environmental humanities and critical heritage studies. Previous edited collections include Feminism and Museums Vol 1: Intervention, Disruption and Change (2017), Feminism and Museums Vol 2: Intervention, Disruption and Change (2018), and Anonymous Was a Woman: A Museums and Feminism Reader (2020). Jenna is also the founder and Creative Director of the arts and heritage organisation Digital Women's Archive North (DWAN, 2015-), and creator of the 2017 manifesto, The Feminists Are Cackling in the Archive: A Manifesto for Feminist Archiving (or disruption).