This thesis is an exploration of queer domesticity, queer possibility and intuitionin historic house museums. It develops a methodological framework intended to
intervene in archival, research, interpretive and institutional practices at these sites. Using
the Elfreth’s Alley Museum’s podcast The Alley Cast as a case study, I examine how
utilizing a framework that understands queerness to be just as possible as straightness;
that uses intuition to guide research; and queer and trans theory to denaturalize categories
of sexuality and gender can uncover queer domestic patterns that unsettle and disrupt the
public’s hetero- and cisnormative assumptions about the past. I argue that this is a
framework that can be adopted by historic house museums in order to engage with queer
history when evidence may be lacking or whose historical subjects’ gender or sexuality
resists easy classification. Finally, I argue that implementing such a framework can only
be done successfully if it is engaged as part of a larger institution-wide commitment to
creating a socially just and responsive museum that understands the importance of
sharing complicated and difficult history with its public and dismantling its own position
of power and authority. / History
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TEMPLE/oai:scholarshare.temple.edu:20.500.12613/6546 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Steven, Isabel Marie, 0000-0001-7496-2614 |
| Contributors | Lowe, Hilary Iris, Bruggeman, Seth C., 1975-, Lee, Lisa Yun, 1969- |
| Publisher | Temple University. Libraries |
| Source Sets | Temple University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation, Text |
| Format | 140 pages |
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| Relation | http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/6528, Theses and Dissertations |
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