Cruising the Library : Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge /

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Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemologies of the Closet as embl...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adler, Melissa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017]
Temas:
Classification > Books > Minorities.
Classification, Library of Congress > Evaluation.
Information organization > Philosophy.
Social sciences > Terminology.
Subject cataloging > Social aspects > United States.
Subject headings > Sexual minorities.
Subject headings, Library of Congress > Evaluation.
American Studies.
LGBTQ Studies.
Library & Information Science.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General.
Classification.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
History of Sexuality.
Knowledge Organization.
Libraries.
Library of Congress.
Perversion.
Queer theory.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: A Book Is Being Cataloged
  • Chapter 1. Naming Subjects: "Paraphilias"
  • Chapter 2. Labeling Obscenity: The Delta Collection
  • Chapter 3. Mapping Perversion: HQ71, etc.
  • Chapter 4. Aberrations in the Catalog
  • Chapter 5. The Trouble with Access / Toward Reparative Taxonomies
  • Epilogue: Sadomasochism in the Library
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • General Index
  • Index to Library of Congress Subject Headings
  • Index to Library of Congress Classifications

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