Preface -- Introduction : A book is being cataloged -- 1. Naming subjects : "paraphilias" -- 2. Labeling obscenity : the Delta Collection -- 3. Mapping perversion : HQ71, etc. -- 4. Aberrations in the catalog -- 5. The trouble with access/toward reparative taxonomies -- Epilogue. Sadomasochism in the library
Summary
Cruising the Library examines the ways in which library classifications have organized sexuality and sexual perversion. The author studies the Library of Congress Subject Headings and Classification, as well as the Library of Congress's Delta Collection, a restricted collection of obscenity until 1964
Analysis
Classification
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
History of Sexuality
Knowledge Organization
Libraries
Library of Congress
Perversion
Queer theory
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-215) and indexes