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Feminist and queer information studies reader / Patrick Keilty and Rebecca Dean, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Litwin Books series on gender and sexuality in information studies ; Number 4.
- Litwin Books Series on Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies ; Number 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women's studies.
- Feminism.
- Sexual minorities.
- Gay people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (716 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Sacramento, California : Litwin Books, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Gathers existing research along with new scholarship on the intersection of gender and sexuality and information use"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- "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"
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-63400-013-7
- OCLC:
- 889313897
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