Item
A Hidden History of Queer Subject Access
title
A Hidden History of Queer Subject Access
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publisher
McFarland & Co Inc
publication year
2008
description
The Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) that Sanford Berman has railed against for so long continue to be criticized throughout the book. He called the headings “chauvinistic”; others call them biased, racist, sexist, and unjust. “A Hidden History of Queer Subject Access” delves into the topic surrounding access to GLBT materials, and their bibliocide due to the lack of adequate headings. Tatiana de la Tierra expands on this theme with “Latina Lesbian Subject Headings: The Power of Naming”. She points out that: “Library of Congress subject headings do not name the complete gamut of sexual expressions”, and that “Subject headings carry a lot of weight. The […] wrong [subject headings], or none at all, can cut off access...” Although LCSH is the largest subject thesaurus in the universe, their progress is continuously pointed out as being pathetic and antiquated.
education level
temporal
spatial
reviewer
Katie Arthur
was created by
Roberto, K. R
Berman, Sanford
Johnson, Matt