Museums, sexuality, and gender activism
Title:
Museums, sexuality, and gender activism
Museum meanings
Museum meanings.
Author:
Adair, Joshua G., editor.
ISBN:
9780367195106
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Physical Description:
xvii, 306 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.
Series:
Museum meanings
Museum meanings.
Contents:
Frameworks / Introduction / Chicana feminism, Anzalduian Borderland practices, and critiques of museology / Warning! Heteronormativity: a question of ethics / Dismantling the master's house? / Sex and sensitivities: exhibiting and interpreting Shunga at the British Museum / Activists on the inside: the Victoria and Albert Museum LGBTQ working group / Remolding the museum: in residence at the V & A / Pop-up or permanent? The case of the Mardi Gras Museum / Emptied displaced, assimilated: spatial politics of gender in Ankara Ulucanlar Prison Museum / Death of a museum foretold? On sexual display in the time of AIDS in India / Lost objects and missing histories: HIV-AIDS in the Netherlands / Bodies in the museum? / Kent Monkman's shame and prejudice, artist curation as queer decolonial museum practice / All that moves us, bodies in land / Future of museological display, Chitra Ganesh's speculative encounters / Nonbinary difference, dionysus and the fictive arts of museum photography / Acts of resistance / Absent history of female volunteers at the art gallery of Toronto / From handmade underwear to the labor movement: women's history at digital museum / Recording change: collecting the Irish abortion rights referendum, 2018 / Never going underground: community co-production and the story of LGBTQ+ rights / Curating Gertrude Stein: identity politics in the exhibition catalogue / Battlefield all their own: selling women's fictions as fact at plantation museums / Thinking outside the binary box / On gender fluidity and photographic portraiture / Never a small project: welcoming transgender communities into the museum / Museum can never be queer enough: the Van Abbemuseum as a testing ground for institutional queering
Abstract:
"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." --Publisher's description.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Field 805:
npmlib 11003635 AM7 M87:2-2 yh