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Cruising the Library : Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge.

Cruising the Library examines the ways in which library classifications have organized sexuality and sexual perversion. The author studies the Library of Congress Subject Headings and Classification, as well as the Library of Congress's Delta Collection, a restricted collection of obscenity unt...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Adler, Melissa
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.