The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog
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The Ideology of Gay and Lesbian Sexuality
A queer reading of Library of Congress cataloging offers a concrete way of understanding the way these mechanisms work in time. The ideology that consigns gay and lesbian sexuality to the subject classification for sexual deviance or classify sexuality of all kinds as social problems is preposterous, he says. Structures of power are often abstract and difficult to perceive or explain to students as real. For example, considered against the background of a dominant fantasy of equal opportunity, explaining the ways that choices and life chances are produced by mechanisms that precede the subject can be difficult.
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