This volume examines the role of exhibitionary institutions from around the world in representing LGBTQ+ people, cisgender women, and nonbinary individuals. The articles offer a vision of the role of museums, galleries, artists, curators, and communities in effecting social change with respect to gender and sexuality.
The volume covers diverse topics, including transgender, two-spirit, indigeneity, third genders, queer, chicana feminism, heteronormativity, shunga, HIV/AIDS, bodies in the museum, abortion rights. Articles reflect difficulties with exhibiting controversial material and explore innovative models for gender activism in museums.
Designed to supplement: Gender, sexuality, and museums: a Routledge reader (2010).
The book is organised into three thematic parts, each with its own introduction. Sections focus on women in museum work, applications of feminist and LGBT theories to museum exhibitions, exhibitions and collections pertaining to women and individuals who identify as LGBT. The case studies in a fourth part provide different perspectives to key topics, such as memorials and memorializing: modernism and museums: and natural history collections. Contains also a bibliographic essay evaluating scholarship to date on gender and sexuality in museums.