Catalogue
Catalogue
Object Type
Name/Title
Sex museums : the politics and performance of display
Primary Maker
Contributor/Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Place
Date
2016?
Physical Description
xxv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780226315102
9780226315249
9780226315386
Level of Current Record
Bib record
Member Object
Subject Category
Content
Preface: "A fire in my belly"
Introduction: All museums are sex museums
1. Hard-core collecting and erotic exhibitionism
2. Nudes and Nazis; or, surveying sex through violence in museums
3. Warning: dissident sex in museums
4. Touring the sex museum
5. Exhibiting the sexual modern
6. Queer curatorship
Coda: When sex museums fail.
Public Access Text
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-273) and index.
Collection Type
Reading Room
Copyright
All rights reserved
Last Update
19 Dec 2023
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