RT Article
T1 Skirts, Stereotypes, and Silences: Representations of Women in Canadian Police Museums
JF Women & criminal justice
VO 31
IS 5
SP 391
OP 405
A1 Joshua, Courtney
A2 Walby, Kevin
A2 Piché, Justin
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1770925228
AB Drawing from interviews, fieldnotes, and visual data, we examine representations of policewomen and gender communicated in Canadian police museums. We examine four trends from our dataset. First, we found silences regarding the history of women in policing in Canada. Second, there was a fetish-like emphasis on women’s police uniforms. Third, when included policewomen were treated in a tokenistic manner. By contrast, displays focusing on men treated them as policing heroes. We argue the history of policing may be one of white male domination, but this facet of social control should not be further normalized by erasing important elements of the histories of women from police museums. In the discussion, we explain what this analysis adds to literatures on representations of women in museums and on representations of policing.
K1 silences
K1 Representation
K1 Police
K1 Museums
K1 Memorialization
K1 Gender
K1 Absences
DO 10.1080/08974454.2020.1737628