Cait McKinney

Information Activism

A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies

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Produktbeschreibung

Cait McKinney traces how lesbian feminist activists in the United States and Canada between the 1970s and the present developed communication networks, databases, and digital archives to use as a foundation for their feminist, antiracist, and trans-inclusive work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781478007821
• ISBN-10: 1478007826
• Artikelnr.: 57838876

Autorenporträt

Cait McKinney is Assistant Professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University and coeditor of Inside Killjoy's Kastle: Dykey Ghosts, Feminist Monsters, and Other Lesbian Hauntings.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. The Internet That Lesbians Built: Newsletter Networks  33
2. Calling to Talk and Listening Well: Information as Care at Telephone
Hotlines  67
3. The Indexers: Dreaming of Computers while Shuffling Paper Cards  105
4. Feminist Digitization Practices at the Lesbian Herstory Archives  153
Epilogue. Doing Lesbian Feminism in an Age of Information Abundance  205
Notes  217
Bibliography  261
Index  281