CRUISING THE LIBRARY [electronic resource] : perversities in the organization of knowledge.

By:

Adler, Melissa

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: NEW YORK : FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2017.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0823276384
9780823276387

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

025.4/33 23

LOC classification:

Z693.5.U6

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Cover; CRUISING THE LIBRARY; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 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; Acknowledgments; Notes; General Index; Index to Library of Congress Subject Headings; Index to Library of Congress Classifications

Summary: 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 until 1964.

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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 until 1964.

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