CRUISING THE LIBRARY

Cruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a c ritical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwicks Epist emologies of the Closet as emblematic of the Librarys inability to account for sexual difference, Melissa Adler embarks upon a deta iled critique of how cataloging systems have delimited and proscribed expressions of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and race in a man ner that m...[Read more]