Cruising the Library : Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge.

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Adler, Melissa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Temas:
Delta Collection (Library of Congress) > History.
Delta Collection (Library of Congress)
Subject cataloging > Social aspects > United States.
Subject headings, Library of Congress > Evaluation.
Classification, Library of Congress > Evaluation.
Subject headings > Sexual minorities.
Classification > Books > Minorities.
Social sciences > Terminology.
Information organization > Philosophy.
Analyse documentaire > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Vedettes-matière de la Library of Congress > Évaluation.
Classification de la Bibliothèque du Congrès > Évaluation.
Classification > Livres > Minorités visibles.
Sciences sociales > Terminologie.
Organisation de l'information > Philosophie.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Library & Information Science > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
Subject headings > Sexual minorities
Classification > Books > Minorities
Social sciences
Subject headings, Library of Congress > Evaluation
LGBTQ+ people
United States
Classification.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick.
History of Sexuality.
Knowledge Organization.
Libraries.
Library of Congress.
Perversion.
Queer theory.
History
Terminology
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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