Gender, Sexuality and Museums : A Routledge Reader

ISBN-13: 9780415554916 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 336 str.

Amy Levin

Opis

Gender, Sexuality and Museums provides the only repository of key articles, new essays and case studies for the important area of gender and sexuality in museums. It is the first reader to focus on LGBT issues and museums, and the first reader in nearly 15 years to collect articles which focus on women and museums. At last, students of museum studies, women's' studies, LGBT studies and museum professionals have a single resource. Amy K. Levin brings together outstanding articles published in the past as well as new essays. The collection's scope is international, with articles about US, Canadian, and European institutions. Gender, Sexuality and Museums: A Routledge Reader is an essential resource for those studying gender and sexuality in the museum.

Gender, Sexuality and Museums provides the only repository of key articles, new essays and case studies for the important but under published area of gender and sexuality in the museum. At last students of museum studies, women’s’ studies, LGBT studies and museum professionals have a single resource for this subject.

The book is grouped into thematic sections each with their own unifying introduction and they cover such areas as the history of women as museum staff, museum theory, exhibitions, visitor studies, collections and collectors and education. The book concludes with three key case studies and a bibliographic essay evaluating scholarship to date on gender and sexuality in museums.

With global contributions from places such the US, Canada, Australia and Europe this book is an essential resource for those studying gender and sexuality in the museum.

 

O autorze

Amy Levin is Acting Associate Dean for Academic Administration in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Northern Illinois University. She is also a professor of English at the university and has served both as director of Women’s Studies and coordinator of Museum Studies. She studies and teaches about race, class, and gender in museums in the U.S. and Europe. Her first two books were studies in literary criticism, and her third book, Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America’s Changing Communities, is an edited collection of articles on small museums.