Sex museums
Subtitle: the politics and performance of display
By: Jennifer Tyburczy
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780226315102; 9780226315249
Subjects: Sex in art; Museums; Exhibitions; Erotic art
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-273) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: "A fire in my belly"; title: Introduction: sex and display; title: Hard-core collecting and erotic exhibitionism; title: Nudes and Nazis; or, surveying sex through violence in museums; title: Warning: dissident sex in museums; title: Touring the sex museum; title: Exhibiting the sexual modern; title: Queer curatorship; title: Coda: when sex museums fail.