Legal discourse’s epistemic interplay with sex and gender classification in the Dewey Decimal Classification System
Fox, Melodie J.
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Title
Legal discourse’s epistemic interplay with sex and gender classification in the Dewey Decimal Classification System
Author(s)
Fox, Melodie J.
Issue Date
2016
Keyword(s)
Sex and gender, Dewey Decimal System
Legal discourse
Abstract
The recognition of a spectrum of gendered and sexed people, along
with changing social conventions, has caused disruption in the absolute
and binary divisions between male and female, man and woman.
Gender and sex are formally classified for many purposes; however,
formal classifications can marginalize people with variable sex or
those who do not identify with traditional understandings of gender.
However, the instability is not a recent development, as demonstrated
by historically changing conceptualizations of sex and gender in
bibliographic classification, as well as in competing and interacting
formal discourses. A discourse analysis was conducted on the concepts
of women and trans and intersex people in four editions of the
Dewey Decimal Classification system, as well as on relevant American
legal discourse to investigate how institutionally endorsed epistemology
and ontology work together to influence how concepts are
defined and classified.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press and the Illinois School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Type of Resource
text
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2016.0017
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