| Description |
xiv, 322 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Women in the temple : gender and leadership in museums / Marjorie Schwarzer -- The new girl in the old boy network : Elizabeth Esteve-Coll at the Victoria & Albert Museum / Ruth Adams -- Museums, women, and empowerment in the MENA countries / Carol Malt -- Looking at museums from a feminist perspective / Hilde Hein -- A woman's audience : a case study of applied feminist theories / Barbara Clark Smith -- Why grapple with queer when you can fondle it? : embracing our erotic intelligence / Paul Gabriel -- Queer is here? : lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender histories and public culture / Robert Mills -- Art world power and women's incognito work : the case of Edward and Jo Hopper / Gail Levin -- Looking for the 'total' woman in wartime : a museological work in progress / Laura Brandon -- Pioneering women revisited : representations of gender in some Israeli settlement museums / Tamar Katriel -- '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 -- The Warren Cup : secret museums, sexuality, and society / Stuart Frost -- Hidden histories : the experience of curating a male same-sex exhibition and the problems encountered / Michael Petry -- Representing lesbians and gay men in British social history museums / Angela Vanegas -- Sister fire : representing the legacies of leatherwomen / Robert Ridinger -- Gender representation in the natural history galleries at the Manchester Museum / Rebecca Machin -- Straight talk : evolution exhibits and the reproduction of heterosexuality / Rebecca Machin -- In pursuit of a spiritual calling : Katherine S. Dreier, Galka E. Scheyer, and Hilla von Rebay / Isabel Wünsche -- A conversation with artists Carrie Moyer, Sheila Pepe, Stephen Mueller, Andrew Robinson, and Frank Holliday / Frank Holliday -- Bodies of evidence : queering disclosure in the art of Jasper Johns / Gavin Butt -- Representing possibility : mourning, memorial, and queer museology / Anna Conlan -- House museums or walk-in closets? : the (non)representation of gay men in the museums they called home / Joshua G. Adair -- Breeders on a golf ball : normalizing sex at Ellis Island / Erica Rand -- Museum studies texts and museum subtexts / Anna Conlan and Amy K. Levin |
| Notes |
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Museums -- Social aspects.
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Museums -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
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Museums and women.
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Women's studies.
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Feminism.
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Queer theory.
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Sex role.
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Sexual minorities.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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| Author |
Levin, Amy K., 1957-
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Routledge (Firm)
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| LC no. |
2010011862 |
| ISBN |
9780415554916 (hbk.) |
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0415554918 (hbk.) |
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9780415554923 (paperback) |
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0415554926 (paperback) |
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