What is Left Unseen

Samenvatting

In this article Rosemarie Buikema demonstrates how feminist scholarship has contributed from a variety of perspectives to the study of the dynamics between the subject and the object of knowledge. She in particular shows how she as a Genderstudies scholar has produced new knowledge and insights by means of paying attention to the processes of in- and exclusion, and the accompanying workings of erasure and neglect. She gives the example of an exhibition in which the Museum of Equality and Difference (MOED) re-curated the cultural heritage of abolitionism, giving centre stage to the black, previously enslaved woman Sojourner Truth rather than the white Dutchman Nicolaas Beets.