Broschiertes Buch

Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism

Beschreibung

Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism examines the role of exhibitionary institutions in representing LGBTQ+ people, cisgender women, and nonbinary individuals. Considering recent gender and sexuality-related developments through a critical lens, the volume contributes significantly to the growing body of activist writing on this topic.

Building on Gender, Sexuality and Museums and featuring work from established voices, as well as newcomers, this volume offers risky and exciting articles from around the world. Chapters cover diverse topics, including transgender representation, erasure, and activism; two-spirit people, indigeneity, and museums; third genders; gender and sexuality in heritage sites and historic homes; temporary exhibitions on gender and sexuality; museum representations of HIV/AIDS; interventions to increase queer visibility and inclusion in galleries; LGBTQ+ staff alliances; and museums, gender ambiguity, and the disruption of binaries. Several chapters focus on areas outside the US and Europe, while others explore central topics through the perspectives of racial and ethnic minorities.

Containing contributions that engage in sustained critique of current policies, theory, and practice, Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism is essential reading for those studying museums, women and gender, sexuality, culture, history, heritage, art, media, and anthropology. The book will also spark interest among museum practitioners, public archivists, and scholars researching related topics.

Autor

Joshua G. Adair is an associate professor of English at Murray State University, where he also serves as coordinator of Gender & Diversity Studies. Adair's work, whether in literary, historical, or museum studies, examines the ways we narrate - and silence - gender and sexuality; it has appeared in over fifty scholarly and creative nonfiction journals. Amy K. Levin served as Director of Women's Studies, Coordinator of Museum Studies, and Chair of English at Northern Illinois University for twenty-one years before beginning a new career as an independent scholar in 2016. Most recently, she was a visiting professor in Public History at the University of Amsterdam in fall 2017.

Produktdetails

• Museum Meanings
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 173mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 820g
• ISBN-13: 9780367195106
• ISBN-10: 0367195100
• Artikelnr.: 58660507

Rezensionen

"This wonderfully eclectic and engaging book discusses a huge variety of innovative practices - and it will sustain and push forward the shared enterprise of creating queer and feminist museum spaces." - Alison Oram, Leeds Beckett University, UK

"Wide-ranging, forceful and keyed to our moment, this book has an unabashed political agenda: to make the museum safe for the depiction of sexual, cultural and gender difference. In so doing, it's alive to the irony that a site of exploration and education is so often in reality merely a place for the reproduction of dominant ideologies. Through a series of case studies, this book sketches an alternative path." - Jonathan D. Katz, University at Buffalo, USA