204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores how museums, galleries and heritage sites of all kinds, through the narratives they construct and publicly present, can shape the moral and political climate within which human rights are experienced. Through a series of richly-drawn cases, which focus on gender diversity and same-sex love and desire, Richard Sandell examines the ways in which museums are implicated in the... Read more
Prologue
1 Progress and Protest
2 ‘I am he that aches with love’
3 Coming Out Stories
4 Taking sides
5 Museums and the Transgender Tipping Point
6 Museum Work as Human Rights Work
1 Progress and Protest
2 ‘I am he that aches with love’
3 Coming Out Stories
4 Taking sides
5 Museums and the Transgender Tipping Point
6 Museum Work as Human Rights Work
Biography
Richard Sandell is Professor of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. His research and practice focuses on museums, equality and social justice. He is Series Editor, with Christina Kreps, of Museum Meanings. His books include Museums, Prejudice and the Reframing of Difference (2007), Re-Presenting Disability: Activism and Agency in the Museum (with Jocelyn Dodd and Rosemarie Garland Thomson) (2010); and Museums, Equality and Social Justice (with Eithne Nightingale) (2012).
