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The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog
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The Importance of Classification in a Gendered World
The Library of Congress assigned the 1967 edition of Christine Jorgensen, a personal autobiography, the class number RC 560.C4 J6. The 2000 reissue from Clice Press was assigned the number HQ 77.8 J67. In both cases, the ideological bias of the classifier is revealed by the classification decision. Roberto has argued that the placement of materials about transsexuality adjacent to materials about gay and lesbian sexuality creates a false understanding that gender and sexuality are congruent. So here she's reifying the idea of LGBTQ materials, which reifies the idea of a LGBTQ conglomerate. And then she also mentions just another way of existing in a gendered world which imports the entire
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