Cruising the library : perversities in the organization of knowledge / Melissa Adler.
Cruising the library : perversities in the organization of knowledge / Melissa Adler.
Cruising the library : perversities in the organization of knowledge / Melissa Adler.
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Publisher
New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
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G 2017/2095
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Language
English
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Physical content
xvii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Machine generated contents note: -- Preface -- Introduction: A Book Is Being Cataloged -- 1. Naming Subjects: "Paraphilias" -- 2. Labeling Obscenity: The Delta Collection -- 3. Mapping Perversion: HQ71, etc. -- 4. Cruising the Library: Aberrations in the Catalog -- 5. The Trouble with Access / Towar...
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Publisher
New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2017.
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Summary
"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 emblematic of the Library's inability to account for sexua...
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Cruising the library : perversities in the organization of knowledge / Melissa Adler.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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G 2017/2095
Record Identifier
74VKVad0xMzX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVad0xMzX
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ISBN
0823276368 (paper)
9780823276356 (hardback)
082327635X (hardback)
9780823276363 (paper)
DDC
025.433
MMS ID
991024099953502626
