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Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism

Series: Museum Meanings
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Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism explores how museums and similar institutions represent LGBTQ+ people, cisgender women, and nonbinary individuals. It critically examines recent developments in gender and sexuality, enriching activist discourse globally. The volume features a wide array of essays addressing transgender representation, gender erasure and activism, indigenous and two-spirit perspectives, third genders, gender and sexuality in heritage sites, HIV/AIDS in museums, queer visibility interventions, LGBTQ+ staff networks, and challenges to traditional gender binaries. Contributions go beyond US and Europe to include racial and ethnic minority viewpoints.

This book is an essential resource for students and practitioners in museum studies, gender and sexuality, culture, history, heritage, art, media, and anthropology.
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Ideal for scholars, students, and museum professionals engaged in gender, sexuality, cultural studies, and activism, as well as public archivists and those interested in inclusive representation within heritage and museum contexts.

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Museums, Sexuality, and Gender Activism examines the role of exhibitionary institutions in representing LGBTQ+ people, cisgender women, and nonbinary individuals.

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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.

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"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

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780367195090

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 February 2020

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 1 Line drawings, black and white; 19 Halftones, black and white; 20 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

  • Edited by Joshua Adair
  • Edited by Amy Levin

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 739g

Pages: 306

About the Author

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.

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