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KØN PÅ MUSEUM? En undersøgelse af hvordan museer kan queere tilgangen til køn

Lorenzen, Benny Sofie LU (2020) ABMM74 20201
Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
Abstract
Museums today try to combat the exclusionary ground on which they were founded, with strategies of broader inclusion. In Århus, Denmark the Women’s museums vision is to be a museum for ”all genders”. In this thesis I investigate the approach to gender in the Women’s museum’s exhibition Køn Redelighed (eng. Gender Blender) (2017-2022), through a queer theoretic lense of gender as a hybrid and discursive phenomenon. I here find that the museums politics of inclusion allows for the same exclusionary reproductions as in the traditional museum. The woman’s museum is not for all genders, but is first and foremost for the stabilization of the idea of the white, cis woman. I argue that inclusion through diversity is not the appropriate strategy,... (More)
Museums today try to combat the exclusionary ground on which they were founded, with strategies of broader inclusion. In Århus, Denmark the Women’s museums vision is to be a museum for ”all genders”. In this thesis I investigate the approach to gender in the Women’s museum’s exhibition Køn Redelighed (eng. Gender Blender) (2017-2022), through a queer theoretic lense of gender as a hybrid and discursive phenomenon. I here find that the museums politics of inclusion allows for the same exclusionary reproductions as in the traditional museum. The woman’s museum is not for all genders, but is first and foremost for the stabilization of the idea of the white, cis woman. I argue that inclusion through diversity is not the appropriate strategy, for beginning to dismantle the museums exclusionary systems. Instead there is a need to queer both our idea of gender and the museum. As museologists we can do this through critical reexamining how we use history in existing collections and exhibitions. The approach to gender in the museum should be one of destabilization of knowledge and handover of power, both literal and through institutional transparency and self-reflection. (Less)
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author
Lorenzen, Benny Sofie LU
supervisor
organization
alternative title
Gender at the museum? An investigation of how museums can queer the approach to gender
course
ABMM74 20201
year
type
H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
subject
keywords
Museum, Memory institutions, Power, Discourse, Gender, Queer, Queering, Feminism
language
Danish
id
9028960
date added to LUP
2022-11-16 09:10:43
date last changed
2022-11-16 09:10:43
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  abstract     = {{Museums today try to combat the exclusionary ground on which they were founded, with strategies of broader inclusion. In Århus, Denmark the Women’s museums vision is to be a museum for ”all genders”. In this thesis I investigate the approach to gender in the Women’s museum’s exhibition Køn Redelighed (eng. Gender Blender) (2017-2022), through a queer theoretic lense of gender as a hybrid and discursive phenomenon. I here find that the museums politics of inclusion allows for the same exclusionary reproductions as in the traditional museum. The woman’s museum is not for all genders, but is first and foremost for the stabilization of the idea of the white, cis woman. I argue that inclusion through diversity is not the appropriate strategy, for beginning to dismantle the museums exclusionary systems. Instead there is a need to queer both our idea of gender and the museum. As museologists we can do this through critical reexamining how we use history in existing collections and exhibitions. The approach to gender in the museum should be one of destabilization of knowledge and handover of power, both literal and through institutional transparency and self-reflection.}},
  author       = {{Lorenzen, Benny Sofie}},
  language     = {{dan}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{KØN PÅ MUSEUM? En undersøgelse af hvordan museer kan queere tilgangen til køn}},
  year         = {{2020}},
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