Cruising the Library : Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adler, Melissa A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Library of Congress.
Classification, Library of Congress.
Subject headings, Library of Congress.
Cataloging > Government policy > United States.
Library science > Moral and ethical aspects.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction : a book is being cataloged
  • 1. Naming subjects : "paraphilias"
  • 2. Labeling obscenity : the Delta Collection
  • 3. Mapping perversion : HQ71, etc.
  • 4. Aberrations in the catalog
  • 5. The trouble with access/toward reparative taxonomies
  • Epilogue : sadomasochism in the library.

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