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- 020 __ |a 9780823276363 (softcover)
- 020 __ |a 9780823276356 (hardcover)
- 040 __ |a DLC |b eng |c DLC |e rda |d DLC
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- 050 00 |a Z695 |b .A25 2017
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- 099 __ |a CAL 022017101790
- 100 1_ |a Adler, Melissa, |e author.
- 245 10 |a Cruising the library : |b perversities in the organization of knowledge / |c Melissa Adler.
- 260 __ |a New York : |b Fordham University Press, |c c2017.
- 300 __ |a xvii, 223 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 23 cm
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
- 500 __ |a LC copy 1 signed by author. |5 DLC
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-215) and indexes.
- 505 8_ |a 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.
- 520 __ |a "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 "-- |c Provided by publisher.
- 610 20 |a Delta Collection (Library of Congress) |x History.
- 650 _0 |a Subject cataloging |x Social aspects |z United States.
- 650 _0 |a Subject headings, Library of Congress |x Evaluation.
- 650 _0 |a Classification, Library of Congress |x Evaluation.
- 650 _0 |a Subject headings |x Sexual minorities.
- 650 _0 |a Classification |x Books |x Minorities.
- 650 _0 |a Social sciences |x Terminology.
- 650 _0 |a Information organization |x Philosophy.
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