1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480275603321

Autore

Adler Melissa

Titolo

Cruising the Library : Perversities in the Organization of Knowledge / / Melissa Adler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-8232-7638-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 pages)

Disciplina

025.4/33

Soggetti

Classification, Library of Congress

Subject headings, Library of Congress

Cataloging - Government policy - United States

Library science - Moral and ethical aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2012 titled For sexual perversion see paraphilias : disciplining sexual deviance at the Library of Congress.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: A Book Is Being Cataloged -- Chapter 1. Naming Subjects: “Paraphilias” -- Chapter 2. Labeling Obscenity: The Delta Collection -- Chapter 3. Mapping Perversion: HQ71, etc. -- Chapter 4. Aberrations in the Catalog -- Chapter 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

Sommario/riassunto

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.



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA990005568450203316

Autore

ARISTOPHANES

Titolo

2: Lysistratam, Thesmophoriazusas, Ranas, Ecclesiazusas, Plutum, Fragmenta, Indicem nominum continens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxonii, : e Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1907

Edizione

[2. ed]

Descrizione fisica

1 volume (senza paginazione) ; 19 cm

Collocazione

XV.8. Coll. 9/ 5 2

XV 21 836/2

Lingua di pubblicazione

Greco antico

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996395451603316

Autore

Collinges John <1623-1690.>

Titolo

A cordial for a fainting soule, or, Some essaies for the satisfaction of doubting wounded Christians labouring under severall burdens [[electronic resource] ] : especially such as arise in Christians spirits from a mistake of the grounds of faith ... : in which severall doubts, most ordinary to Christians in the beginning of their conversion releved ... : being the sum of fourteen sermons ... : with three several tables annexed / / by John Collinges

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Printed for Richard Tomlins, 1652

Descrizione fisica

[30], 230, [9] p

Soggetti

Sermons, English - 17th century

Faith

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes bibliograhical references and index.



Reproduction of original in the Union Theological Seminary Library, New York.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0160