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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464516803321

Titolo

Feminist and queer information studies reader / / Patrick Keilty and Rebecca Dean, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sacramento, California : , : Litwin Books, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-63400-013-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (716 p.)

Collana

Litwin Books Series on Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies ; ; Number 4

Disciplina

305.42

Soggetti

Women's studies

Feminism

Sexual minorities

Gays

Queer studies

Queer theory

LGBTQ people

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Foreword""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One Information as Gendered Labor""; ""The Bride Stripped Bare to Her Data: Information Flow + Digibodies""; ""Essentialism and Care in a Female- Intensive Profession""; ""Reflections on Meaning in Library and Information Studies: A Personal Odyssey through Information, Sexuality, and Gender""; ""Part Two Cyborgs and Cyberfeminism""; ""Feminist Theories of Technology""; ""Cyborg Feminism and the Methodology of the Oppressed""; ""Developing a Corporeal Cyberfeminism: Beyond Cyberutopia""

""Part Three Online Environment""""Going On-line: Consuming Pornography in the Digital Era""; ""Avatars and the Visual Culture of Reproduction on the Web""; ""“OH NO! I�M A NERD!� Hegemonic Masculinity on an Online Forum""; ""Part Four Information Organization""; ""How We Construct Subjects: A Feminist Analysis"";



""Queer Theory and the Creation of Contextual Subject Access Tools for Gay and Lesbian Communities""; ""Paraphilias: The Perversion of Meaning in the Library of Congress Catalog""; ""Administrating Gender""; ""Part Five Information Extraction, Information Flow""

""On Torture: Abu Ghraib""""Tacit Subjects""; ""A Tapestry of Knowledge: Crafting a New Approach to Information Sharing""; ""Sharing Economies and Value Systems on the Nifty Archive""; ""Part Six Archive""; ""Police/Archives""; ""The Brandon Archive""; ""Love and Lubrication in the Archives, or rukus! A Black Queer Archive for the United Kingdom""; ""“Welcome Home� An Exploratory Ethnography of the Information Context at the Lesbian Herstory Archives""; ""Accessing Transgender // Desiring Queer(er?) Archival Logics""

""In the Archives of Lesbian Feelings: Documentary and Popular Culture""""Part Seven Performance""; ""How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Rape Kit""; ""Joe Orton, Kenneth Halliwell and the Islington Public Library: Defacement, Parody and Mashups""; ""Becoming Dragon: A Transversal Technology Study""; ""GRIDs, Gay Bombs, and Viral Aesthetics: Queer Technologies� Networked Assemblages""; ""Afterword""; ""Author Bios""; ""Index""