@article{11985,
  author = {Evelyn Kerslake},
  title = {Constructing Women in Library History: Responding to Julia Taylor's Left on the Shelf},
  abstract = {This paper is a response to work on women library workers in the United Kingdom. It suggests that recent concerns about the need for library historians to extend the analytical and interpretative side of their work contain an inherent demand to develop the theoretical frameworks in the field. A discursive feminist approach to library history is outlined as one such approach, and developments of a paper by Julia Taylor using this framework are outlined. Central benefits of using such a framework are that it helps historians to avoid reinscribing women into oppressive discourses. The need for women's and feminist library history in the U.K., where little work has so far been carried out, is suggested, particularly as the profession in the U.K. largely tends to avoid the gender politics of library employment.},
  year = {1999},
  journal = {Libraries & Culture},
  volume = {34},
  pages = {52-63},
  language = {English},
}