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Author Adler, Melissa.

Title Cruising the Library : Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages)
Contents 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
Notes Print version record
Subject Delta Collection (Library of Congress) -- History
SUBJECT Delta Collection (Library of Congress) fast
Subject Subject cataloging -- Social aspects -- United States
Subject headings, Library of Congress -- Evaluation
Classification, Library of Congress -- Evaluation
Subject headings -- Sexual minorities.
Classification -- Books -- Minorities.
Social sciences -- Terminology
Information organization -- Philosophy
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gay Studies.
Subject headings -- Sexual minorities
Classification -- Books -- Minorities
Social sciences
Subject headings, Library of Congress -- Evaluation
LGBTQ+ people
United States
Genre/Form History
Terminology
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016051405
ISBN 9780823276387
0823276384