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题名/责任者:

Cruising the library : perversities in the organization of knowledge / Melissa Adler.

版本说明:

First edition.

出版发行项:

New York : Fordham University Press, c2017.

ISBN:

9780823276363 (softcover)

ISBN:

9780823276356 (hardcover)

载体形态项:

xvii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

个人责任者:

Adler, Melissa, author.

团体名称主题:

Delta Collection (Library of Congress)-History.

论题主题:

Subject cataloging-Social aspects-United States.

论题主题:

Subject headings, Library of Congress-Evaluation.

论题主题:

Classification, Library of Congress-Evaluation.

论题主题:

Subject headings-Sexual minorities.

论题主题:

Classification-Books-Minorities.

论题主题:

Social sciences-Terminology.

论题主题:

Information organization-Philosophy.

中图法分类号:

G259.712

一般附注:

LC copy 1 signed by author.

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-215) and indexes.

内容附注:

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 / Toward Reparative Taxonomies -- Epilogue. On Using and Being Used: Sadomasochism in the Library -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index.

摘要附注:

"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 sexual difference, Melissa Adler embarks upon a detailed critique of how cataloging systems have delimited and proscribed expressions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race in a manner that mirrors psychiatric and sociological attempts to pathologize non-normative sexual practices and civil subjects. Taking up a parallel analysis, Adler utilizes Roderick A. Ferguson's Aberrations in Black as another example of how the Library of Congress fails to account for, and thereby "buries," difference. She examines the physical space of the Library as one that encourages forms of governmentality as theorized by Michel Foucault while also allowing for its utopian possibilities. Finally, she offers a brief but highly illuminating history of the Delta Collection. Likely established before the turn of the twentieth century and active until its gradual dissolution in the 1960s, the Delta Collection was a secret archive within the Library of Congress that housed materials confiscated by the United States Post Office and other federal agencies. These were materials deemed too obscene for public dissemination or general access. Adler reveals how the Delta Collection was used to regulate difference and squelch dissent in the McCarthy era while also linking it to evolving understandings of so-called perversion in the scientific study of sexual difference. Sophisticated, engrossing, and highly readable, Cruising the Library provides us with a critical understanding of library science, an alternative view of discourses around the history of sexuality, and an analysis of the relationship between governmentality and the cataloging of research and information--as well as categories of difference--in American culture "--

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