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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Adler, Melissa A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
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.

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