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Author Tyburczy, Jennifer, author.

Title Sex museums : the politics and performance of display / Jennifer Tyburczy.

Publication Info. Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 286 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Sex in art -- Museums -- Western countries.
Sex in art.
Museums.
Western countries.
Erotic art -- Museums -- Western countries.
Erotic art.
Sex in art -- Museums -- Mexico -- Mexico City.
Mexico.
Mexico -- Mexico City.
Erotic art -- Museums -- Mexico -- Mexico City.
Sex in art -- Exhibitions.
Erotic art -- Exhibitions.
Sex (Biology)
Art.
Art.
Museums.
museums (institutions)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Sex (Biology)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Exhibition catalogs.
Subject LGBTQ+ erotic art.
Sex (Body)
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Other Form: Print version: Tyburczy, Jennifer. Sex museums 9780226315102 (DLC) 2015017765 (OCoLC)907196561
ISBN 9780226315386 (electronic book)
022631538X (electronic book)
9780226315102 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
022631510X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780226315249 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
022631524X (paperback ; alkaline paper)

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