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Daring to find our names : the search for lesbigay library history
- Title
- Daring to find our names : the search for lesbigay library history / edited by James V. Carmichael, Jr.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- Westport, Connecticut : Greenwood Press, 1998.
- Description
- xiv, 251 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- URL
- <Book review (H-Net)> http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0b1a1-aa
- Other contributors
- Carmichael, James V., Jr. (James Vinson), 1946- editor.
- Uniform series
- Beta Phi Mu monograph ; no. 5.
- Notes
- The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Don Kelly Research Collection of Gay Literature and Culture. Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Introduction: Makeover Without a Mirror
- A Face for Lesbigay Library History / James V. Carmichael, Jr.
- Finding Our Names: Theory, Problems, and Context
- Methodological Issues in Research with Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals / Caitlin Ryan, Judy Bradford
- A Lesbigay Gender Perplex: Sexual Stereotyping and Professional Ambiguity in Librarianship / Christine L. Williams
- Biographical Research on Lesbigay Subjects: Editing the Letters of Lillian Smith / Margaret Rose Gladney
- A Closet Curtained by Circumspection: Doing Research on the McCarthy Era Purge of Gays from the Library of Congress / Louise S. Robbins
- Queer Histories/Queer Librarians: The Historical Development of a Gay Monograph / Norman G. Kester
- Telling Our Names: the Pioneers
- Gays in Library Land: The Gay and Lesbian Task Force of the American Library Association: The First Sixteen Years / Barbara Gittings
- A Personal Task Force Scrapbook: "Incunabula," 1971-1972 and After / Kay Tobin Lahusen, Barbara Gittings
- Reclaiming a Founding / Israel D. Fishman
- Librarians as Cultural Enforcers / Janet Cooper
- The Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Task Force of the American Library Association: A Chronology of Activities, 1970-1995 / Cal Gough
- Saving Our Names: Lesbigay Library/Archival Collections
- Archivists, Activists, and Scholars: Creating a Queer History / Brenda J. Marston
- Building "A Home of Our Own": The Construction of the Lesbian Herstory Archives / Polly J. Thistlethwaite.
- Subject headings
- Gay librarians--History. Lesbian librarians--History. Gay librarians--United States--History. Lesbian librarians--United States--History. Libraries and gay people--History. Libraries and lesbians--History. Libraries and gay people--United States--History. Libraries and lesbians--United States--History.
- Genre heading
- History.
- ISBN
- 0313299633 (alk. paper) 9780313299636 (alk. paper)