Feminist and Queer Information Studies Reader

Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies

by Patrick Keilty (Editor), Rebecca Dean (Editor), Sandy Stone (Foreword)

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.

Genres: Feminism, Queer, Nonfiction, Gender and Sexuality, Library Science, Librarianship

716 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 2012

About the author

Patrick Keilty is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information and Archives Director of the Sexual Representation Collection in the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto.

Reviews

[Liza]

I will be reading this forever!

[William Fung]

A dazzling rainbow of perspectives. Essential and enlightening!

[Jacob]

I've read a number of the articles in this reader. They were really helpful for learning more about the moves that cyberfeminism has made. I will likely read more of these articles in the future. Highly recommend for people interested in Information Sciences.

[Mark]

http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=...

[Mills College Library]

305.42 N727 2013