Cruising the Library – Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge
Autor Melissa Adleren Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 apr 2017
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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ISBN-13: 9780823276363
ISBN-10: 0823276368
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 152 x 227 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: ME – Fordham University Press
ISBN-10: 0823276368
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 152 x 227 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: ME – Fordham University Press
Notă biografică
Melissa Adler is Assistant Professor at Western University (London, Ontario) in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies.
Descriere
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.