Information Activism - A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Cait McKinney

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Cait McKinney
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781478008286
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-0828-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 230 mm x 17 mm
• Series: Sign, Storage, Transmission
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; Untersuchungen zu Homosexualität / LGBTQ, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Ethische und soziale Fragen der IT, COMPUTERS / Social Aspects / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBT Studies / Lesbian Studies