Gendering Library History

Contents: Helpless girls and female depravity: Women in and out of the public libraries of the past / Paul Sturges Adelaide Hasse: The historiography of the difficult woman / Clare Beck Isn't it queer? Cataloguing the closet / Jeff Schneider & Ann O'Bryan Cockerham The Worthing connection: Marian Frost, pioneer woman librarian, and the two Committees of Women Librarians 1913-15 / Chris Baggs Telling lives: Women librarians in Europe and America at the turn of the century / Mary Niles Maack Managerialism and women's roles: Femaleness in public service organisations from 1945 to the present / Margaret Kinnell Evans Women: The invisible library users / Lindy Moore Fashionable design and good service: The spinster librarians at Boots Booklovers Library / Nickianne Moody Jilly Cooper versus the government: Romantic discourses of femininity and women's library employment / Janine Liladhar and Evelyn Kerslake The role of the librarian in the reconfiguration of gender and class in relation to professional authorship / Val Williamson Rare books and rare women: Gender and private libraries 1660-1830 / Susie West The life and times of LiL: Lesbians in the library / Avril Rolph Man and boy: Modifying masculinities in public librarianship, 1850-1950; with a case study of the Inter-War Librarianship Masonic Circle / Alistair Black Interwar masculinities, libraries for sailors and powers of literature / Wren Sidhe Librarians as guardians of memory: the case of France / Judith Bowen