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Author Tyburczy, Jennifer, author.

Title Sex museums : the politics and performance of display / Jennifer Tyburczy
Published Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 286 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Sex in art -- Museums -- Western countries
Erotic art -- Museums -- Western countries
Sex in art -- Museums -- Mexico -- Mexico City
Erotic art -- Museums -- Mexico -- Mexico City
Sex in art -- Exhibitions
Erotic art -- Exhibitions
Sex (Biology)
Art.
Museums.
Sex
Art
Museums
museums (institutions)
sex (biological characteristic)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Sex (Biology)
Museums
Art
Erotic art
Sex in art
Erotik Motiv
Museum
Geschlechterforschung
Mexico -- Mexico City
Western countries
Genre/Form Electronic books
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226315386
022631538X