Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display

by Jennifer Tyburczy

Book Overview

Winner of the 29th annual Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies

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. Most museum exhibits, she argues, assume that white, patriarchal heterosexuality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022631524X
• ISBN13: 9780226315249
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"