ISBN:
022631538X
,
9780226315386
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 286 pages)
,
illustrations
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Tyburczy, Jennifer Sex museums
DDC:
306.7074
Keywords:
Sex in art Museums
;
Erotic art Museums
;
Sex in art Museums
;
Erotic art Museums
;
Sex in art Exhibitions
;
Erotic art Exhibitions
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Erotic art
;
Sex in art
;
Erotik
;
Museum
;
Geschlechterforschung
;
Exhibition catalogs
;
Western countries
;
Mexico ; Mexico City
Abstract:
All museums are sex museums. In 'Sex Museums', Jennifer Tyburczy takes a hard look at the formation of Western sexuality, particularly how categories of sexual normalcy and perversity are formed - and asks what role museums have played in using display as a technique for disciplining sexuality
Abstract:
Preface: "A fire in my belly" -- Introduction: sex and display -- Hard-core collecting and erotic exhibitionism -- Nudes and Nazis; or, surveying sex through violence in museums -- Warning: dissident sex in museums -- Touring the sex museum -- Exhibiting the sexual modern -- Queer curatorship -- Coda: when sex museums fail.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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