Elaborate Isolation: Metastructures of Knowledge About Women

• Published in: The Information society Vol. 17; no. 3; pp. 179 - 194
• Main Authors: PALMER, Carole L, MALONE, Cheryl Knott
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Informa UK Ltd 01.07.2001; Taylor & Francis; Taylor & Francis LLC
• Subjects: Bibliographic data bases; Bibliographic description. Cataloging. Referencing; Exact sciences and technology; Expert systems; Feminism; Feminist Theory Knowledge Organization Metastructure Subject Access Subject Representation; Indexing; Information; Information and communication sciences; Information and document structure and analysis; Information processing and retrieval; Information science. Documentation; Information sources; Knowledge organization; Legacy systems; Publishing industry; Sciences and techniques of general use; Social aspects; Studies; Women; Womens studies; United States > US; Human; Feminism; Information organization; Subject heading; Sex; Cataloging; Differentiation; Woman; Information structure; Categorization; Bibliography

This paper examines the category of "Woman" within the metastructure of a system of knowledge organization. We trace the subject scheme used to list books about women in a standard bibliographic guide over the first three-quarters of the twentieth century.Building on the feminist critique...