Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader
Editors: Patrick Keilty and Rebecca Dean
Price: $75
Published: October 2013
ISBN: 978-1-936117-16-1
716 pages
Series on Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies
Number four in the Litwin Books Series on Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies, Emily Drabinski, Series Editor
In Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader, Keilty and Dean put the field of Information Studies into critical conversation with studies of gender, sexuality, race, and technology. In classic and original essays, renowned scholars from a range of disciplines think through a broad array of information and technology philosophies and practices. Conceiving of “information” in a broad sense, the contributors reevaluate conventional methods and topics within Information Studies to examine encounters with information phenomena and technology that do not lend themselves easily to the scientific and behaviorist modes of description that have long dominated the field. A Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword provide helpful context to the reader’s 27 essays, arranged around topics that include information as gendered labor, cyborgs and cyberfeminism, online environments, information organization, information extraction and flow, archives, and performance.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword – Sandy Stone
Introduction – Patrick Keilty
Information as Gendered Labor
The Bride Stripped Bare to Her Data: Information Flow + Digibodies – Mary Flanagan
Essentialism and Care in a Female-Intensive Profession – Melodie Fox and Hope Olson
Reflections on Meaning in Library and Information Studies: A Personal Odyssey through Information, Sexuality, and Gender – Alvin Schrader
Cyborgs and Cyberfeminism
Feminist Theories of Technology – Judy Wajcman
Cyborg Feminism and the Methodology of the Oppressed – Chela Sandoval
Developing a Corporeal Cyberfeminism: Beyond Cyberutopia – Jessica Brophy
Online Environment
Going On-Line: Consuming Pornography in the Digital Era – Zabet Patterson
Avatars and the Visual Culture of Reproduction on the Web – Lisa Nakamura
“OH NO! I’M A NERD!” : Hegemonic Masculinity on an Online Forum – Lori Kendall
Information Organization
How We Construct Subjects: A Feminist Analysis – Hope Olson
Queer Theory and the Creation of Contextual Subject Access Tools for Gay and Lesbian Communities – D. Grant Campbell
Paraphilias: The Perversion of Meaning in the Library of Congress Catalog – Melissa Adler
Administrating Gender – Dean Spade
Information Extraction, Information Flow
On Torture: Abu Ghraib – Jasbir Puar
Tacit Subjects – Carlos Ulises Decena
A Tapestry of Knowledge: Crafting a New Approach to Information Sharing – Sherilyn M. Williams and Pamela McKenzie
Sharing Economies and Value Systems on the Nifty Archive – Mica Ars Hilson
Archive
Police / Archives – Steven Maynard
The Brandon Archive – Judith Halberstam
Love and Lubrication in the Archives, or rukus!: A Black Queer Archive for the United Kingdom – Ajamu X, Topher Vampbell, and Mary Stevens
Welcome Home: An Exploratory Ethnography of trhe Information Context at the Lesbian Herstory Archives – Danielle Cooper
Accessing Transgender // Desiring Queer(er?) Archival Logics – K. J. Rawson
In the Archive of Lesbian Feeling: Documentary and Popular Culture – Ann Cvetkovich
Performance
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Rape Kit – Aliza Shvarts
Joe Orton, Kenneth Halliwell, and the Islington Public Library: Defacement, Parody and Mashups – D. Grant Campbell
Becoming Dragon: A Transversal Technology Study – Micha Cárdenas
GRIDs, Gay Bombs, and Viral Aesthetics – Zach Blas
Afterword – Leah Lievrouw
Author Bios
Index