TY - SER
AU - Melissa A. Adler
CY - New York
LA - English
N1 -
Analyzes how subject headings can affect access to books on sexuality and sexual differences (perversity) through an examination of the Library of Congress Subject Headings and Classification system, as well as the Library of Congress's Delta Collection, a collection of obscenity restricted until 1964.
Contents:
- Introduction: A Book Is Being Cataloged
- Naming Subjects: "Paraphilias"
- Labeling Obscenity: The Delta Collection
- Mapping Perversion: HQ71, etc.
- Aberrations in the Catalog
- The Trouble with Access / Toward Reparative Taxonomies
- Epilogue: Sadomasochism in the Library
PB - Fordham University Press
PP - New York
PY - 2017
SN - 9780823276356
EP - 223 pp.
TI - Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge
ER -