Cruising the Library : : Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge / / Melissa Adler.
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 embl...
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Adler, Melissa, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Cruising the Library : Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge / Melissa Adler. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017] ©2017 1 online resource (248 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: A Book Is Being Cataloged -- Chapter 1. Naming Subjects: "Paraphilias" -- Chapter 2. Labeling Obscenity: The Delta Collection -- Chapter 3. Mapping Perversion: HQ71, etc. -- Chapter 4. Aberrations in the Catalog -- Chapter 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Classification Books Minorities. Classification, Library of Congress Evaluation. Information organization Philosophy. Social sciences Terminology. Subject cataloging Social aspects United States. Subject headings Sexual minorities. Subject headings, Library of Congress Evaluation. American Studies. LGBTQ Studies. Library & Information Science. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Library & Information Science / General. bisacsh Classification. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. History of Sexuality. Knowledge Organization. Libraries. Library of Congress. Perversion. Queer theory. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017 9783110729016 print 9780823276356 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823276387?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823276387 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823276387/original |
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