Information activism : a queer history of lesbian media technologies / Cait McKinney.
Information activism : a queer history of lesbian media technologies / Cait McKinney.
Information activism : a queer history of lesbian media technologies / Cait McKinney.
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
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G 2020/3471
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English
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xi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
The Internet that lesbians built : newsletter networks -- Calling to talk and listening well : information as care at telephone hotlines -- The indexers : dreaming of computers while shuffling paper cards -- Feminist digitization practices at the Lesbian Herstory Archives -- Epilogue: Doing lesbian...
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Place of Publication
North Carolina
Date Published
2020.
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"INFORMATION ACTIVISM surveys the media produced by lesbian feminist archivists, librarians, historians, and hotline workers over the past 50 years, showing how volunteer-driven activist information projects formed the basis for queer digital media practices today. Recognizing a gap in the resources available to queer women and in how institutional...
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Information activism : a queer history of lesbian media technologies / Cait McKinney.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and index.
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©2020
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G 2020/3471
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74VKamd2R2RZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKamd2R2RZ
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ISBN
9781478007821
DDC
306.7663
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991024332014802626
