| Description |
242 pages ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Helpless girls and female depravity: Women in and out of the public libraries of the past / Paul Sturges -- Adelaide Hasse: The historiography of the difficult woman / Clare Beck -- Isn't it queer? Cataloguing the closet / Jeff Schneider & Ann O'Bryan Cockerham -- The Worthing connection: Marian Frost, pioneer woman librarian, and the two Committees of Women Librarians 1913-15 / Chris Baggs -- Telling lives: Women librarians in Europe and America at the turn of the century / Mary Niles Maack -- Managerialism and women's roles: Femaleness in public service organisations from 1945 to the present / Margaret Kinnell Evans -- Women: The invisible library users / Lindy Moore -- Fashionable design and good service: The spinster librarians at Boots Booklovers Library / Nickianne Moody -- Jilly Cooper versus the government: Romantic discourses of femininity and women's library employment / Janine Liladhar and Evelyn Kerslake -- The role of the librarian in the reconfiguration of gender and class in relation to professional authorship / Val Williamson -- Rare books and rare women: Gender and private libraries 1660-1830 / Susie West -- The life and times of LiL: Lesbians in the library / Avril Rolph -- Man and boy: Modifying masculinities in public librarianship, 1850-1950; with a case study of the Inter-War Librarianship Masonic Circle / Alistair Black -- Interwar masculinities, libraries for sailors and powers of literature / Wren Sidhe -- Librarians as guardians of memory: the case of France / Judith Bowen. |
| Subject |
Libraries and women.
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Libraries and women. |
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Women in library science.
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Women in library science. |
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Women in information science.
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Women in information science. |
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Women library employees.
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Women library employees. |
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Sex role in the work environment.
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Sex role in the work environment. |
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Lesbian librarians.
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Lesbian librarians. |
| Added Author |
Kerslake, Evelyn.
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Moody, Nickianne.
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| ISBN |
0952797805 |
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