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

  • Tyburczy, Jennifer
Date:
2016
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Physical description

xxv, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-273) 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.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    TPJ.AS
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780226315102
  • 022631510X
  • 9780226315249
  • 022631524X