The absence of women workers'value and influencing factors in the presentation and interpretation of industrial heritage museums:A case study of four textile museums
Women workers are important participants in industrial production and have a significant impact on industrial production and society life.The value of women workers is the integral element for meaning reconstruction and value expression of industrial heritage usage in tourism development.In this research,data of media information and visitors'comments of four representative textile museums were collected,then they were used to explore the display features of female workers'value in the industrial heritage tourism by comparing the information presented at the input and output ends of display and interpretation system.The research found that information transmission of female workers in the textile museum is very limited,indicating the lack of female role,the shortage of content,the simplicity of display forms with the major impacting factors from the static narrative system,the lack of personal awareness and gender perspective,and the limitation of technologies.The significance of heritage lies in value expression and transmission.In this process of constructing the presentation and interpretation of industrial heritages,a tempo dimension should be considered;in respect of content,special value regarding female workers should be further minded;meanwhile,the life scenarios of female workers should be restored,and effects of interaction and participation should be strengthened,with the purpose of showing the contribution of women to the core value of industrial heritage in a general yet authentic manner.As an explorative study on the presentation and interpretation of industrial heritage,this paper advocates scholars and practitioners to value the industrial heritage's presentation and interpretation and to concern the female group in the development of tourism products.
value of female workersvalue transmissionpresentation and interpretationheri-tage tourismindustrial heritagetextile museum
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