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The Power Of Image: Sixteenth-Century German Witchcraft Imagery, Amie Fillet Jun 2023

The Power Of Image: Sixteenth-Century German Witchcraft Imagery, Amie Fillet

Voces Novae

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Smoke Shows: The Sexualization Of American Women In 20th Century Cigarette Advertising, Kellan Jenner Jun 2023

Smoke Shows: The Sexualization Of American Women In 20th Century Cigarette Advertising, Kellan Jenner

Voces Novae

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Queering The Library Of Congress, Carlos R. Fernandez Aug 2015

Queering The Library Of Congress, Carlos R. Fernandez

Works of the FIU Libraries

This poster will attempt to apply the techniques used in Queer Theory to explore library and information science’s use and misuse of library classification systems; and to examine how “queering” these philosophical categories can not only improve libraries, but also help change social constructs.

For millennia, philosophers, such as Plato and Aristotle, have used and expounded upon categories and systems of classification. Their purpose is to make research and the retrieval of information easier. Unfortunately, the rules used to categorize and catalog make information retrieval more challenging for some, due to social constructs such as heteronormality.

The importance of this …