Gender, Sexuality, and Museums
Subtitle: A Routledge Reader
By: edited by Amy K. Levin
Contributors: Routledge (Firm)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780415554916; 9780415554923
Subjects: Museums and women; Social aspects; Queer theory; Museums; Sexual minorities; Case studies; Sex role; Women's studies; Feminism
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Women in the temple : gender and leadership in museums / Marjorie Schwarzer; title: The new girl in the old boy network : Elizabeth Esteve-Coll at the Victoria & Albert Museum / Ruth Adams; title: Museums, women, and empowerment in the MENA countries / Carol Malt; title: Looking at museums from a feminist perspective / Hilde Hein; title: A woman's audience : a case study of applied feminist theories / Barbara Clark Smith; title: Why grapple with queer when you can fondle it? : embracing our erotic intelligence / Paul Gabriel; title: Queer is here? : lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender histories and public culture / Robert Mills; title: Art world power and women's incognito work : the case of Edward and Jo Hopper / Gail Levin; title: Looking for the 'total' woman in wartime : a museological work in progress / Laura Brandon; title: Pioneering women revisited : representations of gender in some Israeli settlement museums / Tamar Katriel; title: ^; title: 'Thanks, but we'll take it from here' : Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women influencing the collection of tangible and intangible heritage / Olivia Robinson and Trish Barnard; title: The Warren Cup : secret museums, sexuality, and society / Stuart Frost; title: Hidden histories : the experience of curating a male same-sex exhibition and the problems encountered / Michael Petry; title: Representing lesbians and gay men in British social history museums / Angela Vanegas; title: Sister fire : representing the legacies of leatherwomen / Robert Ridinger; title: Gender representation in the natural history galleries at the Manchester Museum / Rebecca Machin; title: Straight talk : evolution exhibits and the reproduction of heterosexuality / Rebecca Machin; title: In pursuit of a spiritual calling : Katherine S. Dreier, Galka E. Scheyer, and Hilla von Rebay / Isabel Wünsche; title: A conversation with artists Carrie Moyer, Sheila Pepe, Stephen Mueller, Andrew Robinson, and Frank Holliday / Frank Holliday; title: ^; title: ^^; title: Bodies of evidence : queering disclosure in the art of Jasper Johns / Gavin Butt; title: Representing possibility : mourning, memorial, and queer museology / Anna Conlan; title: House museums or walk-in closets? : the (non)representation of gay men in the museums they called home / Joshua G. Adair; title: Breeders on a golf ball : normalizing sex at Ellis Island / Erica Rand; title: Museum studies texts and museum subtexts / Anna Conlan and Amy K. Levin.; title: ^^