LEADER 05147nam 22007335 450 001 9910792878903321 005 20230126215128.0 010 $a0-8232-7638-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823276387 035 $a(CKB)3710000001100294 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4821737 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4945221 035 $a(OCoLC)976434039 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse57421 035 $a(DE-B1597)554962 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823276387 035 $a(OCoLC)1019664184 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001100294 100 $a20200723h20172017 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aCruising the Library $ePerversities in the Organization of Knowledge /$fMelissa Adler 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2017] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (249 pages) 300 $aRevision 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. 311 0 $a0-8232-7636-8 311 0 $a0-8232-7635-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction: A Book Is Being Cataloged --$tChapter 1. Naming Subjects: ?Paraphilias? --$tChapter 2. Labeling Obscenity: The Delta Collection --$tChapter 3. Mapping Perversion: HQ71, etc. --$tChapter 4. Aberrations in the Catalog --$tChapter 5. The Trouble with Access / Toward Reparative Taxonomies --$tEpilogue: Sadomasochism in the Library --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tGeneral Index --$tIndex to Library of Congress Subject Headings --$tIndex to Library of Congress Classifications 330 $aCruising 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. 606 $aClassification, Library of Congress$xEvaluation 606 $aSubject headings, Library of Congress$xEvaluation 606 $aSubject cataloging$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aCataloging$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 606 $aSubject headings$xSexual minorities 606 $aClassification$xBooks$xMinorities 610 $aClassification. 610 $aEve Kosofsky Sedgwick. 610 $aHistory of Sexuality. 610 $aKnowledge Organization. 610 $aLibraries. 610 $aLibrary of Congress. 610 $aPerversion. 610 $aQueer theory. 615 0$aClassification, Library of Congress$xEvaluation. 615 0$aSubject headings, Library of Congress$xEvaluation. 615 0$aSubject cataloging$xSocial aspects 615 0$aCataloging$xGovernment policy 615 0$aSubject headings$xSexual minorities. 615 0$aClassification$xBooks$xMinorities. 676 $a025.4/33 686 $aLAN025000$aSOC012000$2bisacsh 700 $aAdler$b Melissa$01539250 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792878903321 996 $aCruising the Library$93789987 997 $aUNINA