ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on feminist perspectives while recognising that the study of masculinity and masculine culture, along with gender fluidity and non-conformity, should also form part of enquiries into gender, digital humanities and digital cultural heritage. The so-called ‘democratisation’ of heritage through digitization and digital technologies is also fraught with caveats and requires a critical eye towards the processes at work in the mediation of digital objects that is true for all digital cultural heritage. A critical digital heritage study of gendered heritage processes will require a suite of methodologies and approaches. Digital oral history making is just one potential tool for broader feminist digital humanities practice. The canonical history of Digital Humanities emphasises technological progress and narratives of ‘great men’, especially Fr Roberto Busa SJ. A number of digital archive projects that spoke to questions of difference, some in the context of second-wave feminist recovery, were created within and without the digital humanities community in 1990s.
