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| Notes on contributors | | ix | |
| Acknowledgments | | xiii | |
| | 1 | (12) |
| PART 1 Women in museum work |
| | 13 | (36) |
| 2 Women in the Temple: Gender and Leadership in Museums |
| | 16 | (12) |
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| 3 The New Girl in the Old Boy Network: Elizabeth Esteve-Coll at the Victoria & Albert Museum |
| | 28 | (15) |
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| 4 Museums, women, and Empowerment in the Mena Countries |
| | 43 | (6) |
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| | 49 | (40) |
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| 5 Looking at Museums from a Feminist Perspective |
| | 53 | (12) |
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| 6 A Women's Audience: A Case Study of Applied Feminist Theories |
| | 65 | (6) |
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| 7 Why Grapple with Queer when you can Fondle It? Embrancing Our Erotic Intelligence |
| | 71 | (9) |
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| 8 Queer is Here? Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Histories and Public Culture |
| | 80 | (9) |
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| PART 3 Collections and exhibitions |
| | 89 | (94) |
| Women in (and out of) exhibits |
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| 9 Art World Power and Women's Incognito Work: The Case of Edward and Jo Hopper |
| | 93 | (12) |
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| 10 Looking for the `Total' Woman in Wartime: A Museological Work in Progress |
| | 105 | (10) |
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| 11 Pioneering Women Revisited: Representations of Gender in Some Israeli Settlement Museums |
| | 115 | (14) |
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| 12 `Thanks, But We'll Take It from Here': Australian Abogriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women Influencing the Collection of Tangible and Intangible Heritage |
| | 129 | (9) |
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| LGBTQ out (and in) exhibits |
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| 13 The Warren Cup: Secret Museums, Sexuality, and Society |
| | 138 | (13) |
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| 14 Hidden Histories: The Experience of Curating a Male Same-Sex Exhibition and The Problem Encountered |
| | 151 | (12) |
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| 15 Represneting Lesbinans and Gay Men In British Social History Museums |
| | 163 | (9) |
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| 16 Sister Fire: Representing the Legacies of Leatherwomen |
| | 172 | (11) |
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| | 183 | (114) |
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| 17 Gender Representation in the Natural History Galleries at the Manchester Museum |
| | 187 | (14) |
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| 18 Straight Talk: Evolution Exhibits and the Reproduction of Heterosexuality |
| | 201 | (12) |
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| 19 In Pursuit of a Spiritual Calling: Katherine S. Dreier, Galaka E. Scheyer, Hilla von Rebay |
| | 213 | (16) |
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| 20 A Conversation with Artists Carrie Moyer, Sheila Pepe, Stephen Mueller, Andrew Robinson, and Frank Holliday |
| | 229 | (6) |
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| 21 Bodies of Evidence: Queering Disclosure in the Art of Jasper Johns |
| | 235 | (18) |
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| Memorials and momorializing: the heritage we create |
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| 22 Representing Possibility: Mourning, Memorial, and Queer Museology |
| | 253 | (11) |
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| 23 House Museums or Walk-In Closets? The (Non) Representation of Gay Men in the Museums They Called Home |
| | 264 | (15) |
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| 24 Breeders on a Golf Ball: Normalizing Sex at Ellis Island |
| | 279 | (18) |
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| PART 5 Bibliographic essay |
| | 297 | (14) |
| 25 Museum Studies Texts and Museum Subtexts |
| | 299 | (12) |
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| Index | | 311 | |
