Cruising the Library Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge
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 unt...
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2017
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| Abstract | 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. |
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| AbstractList | Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemologies of the Closet as emblematic of the Library’s inability to account for sexual difference, Melissa Adler embarks upon a detailed critique of how cataloging systems have delimited and proscribed expressions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race in a manner that mirrors psychiatric and sociological attempts to pathologize non-normative sexual practices and civil subjects.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. 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. Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemologies of the Closet as emblematic of the Library's inability to account for sexual difference, Melissa Adler embarks upon a detailed critique of how cataloging systems have delimited and proscribed expressions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race in a manner that mirrors psychiatric and sociological attempts to pathologize non-normative sexual practices and civil subjects. 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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| Keywords | American Studies Library & Information Science Perversion LGBTQ Studies Classification Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Libraries Queer theory History of Sexuality Knowledge Organization Library of Congress |
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| Subtitle | Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge |
| TableOfContents | Front Matter
Table of Contents
PREFACE
Introduction:
CHAPTER 1: Naming Subjects:
CHAPTER 2: Labeling Obscenity:
CHAPTER 3: Mapping Perversion:
CHAPTER 4: Aberrations in the Catalog
CHAPTER 5: The Trouble with Access/Toward Reparative Taxonomies
Epilogue:
Acknowledgments
NOTES
GENERAL INDEX
INDEX TO LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS
INDEX TO LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATIONS Cover -- CRUISING THE LIBRARY -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- General Index -- Index to Library of Congress Subject Headings -- Index to Library of Congress Classifications Chapter 4. Aberrations in the Catalog -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction: A Book Is Being Cataloged -- Index to Library of Congress Classifications Chapter 2. Labeling Obscenity: The Delta Collection -- Preface -- Index to Library of Congress Subject Headings -- Chapter 5. The Trouble with Access / Toward Reparative Taxonomies -- Chapter 3. Mapping Perversion: HQ71, etc. -- Frontmatter -- General Index -- Chapter 1. Naming Subjects: “Paraphilias” -- Notes -- Epilogue: Sadomasochism in the Library -- |
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