Backlash, Backwater, or Back to the Drawing Board: Feminist Thinking and Librarianship in the 1990s.

Pritchard, Sarah

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Publication Date: 1994

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Backlash, Backwater, or Back to the Drawing Board: Feminist Thinking and Librarianship in the 1990s.

Pritchard, Sarah

Wilson Library Bulletin, v68 n10 p42-46 Jun 1994

Discusses the feminist perspective of librarianship, including following key issues: salaries, pay equity, and occupational segregation; faculty status, professional education, and recruitment; access to information; technology; and sociology of the workplace. A number of myths relating to this topic are addressed, and a bibliography of 18 recent examples of feminist thinking in librarianship is provided. (JLB)

Descriptors: Access to Information, Consciousness Raising, Critical Thinking, Employed Women, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females, Feminism, Information Technology, Librarians, Library Role, Library Science, Salaries, Sex Discrimination, Womens Studies, Work Environment

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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