Intro; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Prelude: Female Articulation and the Librarian (Or, So Hard to Say); Part I -- Emotional Work and Ethics of Care; Behavioral Expectations for the Mommy Librarian: The Successful Reference Transaction as Emotional Labor; "Nothing More than a Gear in your Car:"Neutrality and Feminist Reference in the Academic Library; Purposeful and Productive Care: The Feminist Ethic of Care and the Reference Desk; Feminist Reference Services: Transforming Relationships through an Ethic of Care; A Woman's Work is Never Done: Reference Outside the Library
Part II -- Ways of Doing and Rethinking the WorkSeeing Writing Center Practices through a Feminist Lens & Applying the Lessons Learned to Reference Desk Practice; Margaret Fuller's Legacy Interpreted for the Postmodern Library; Proceed With Care: Reviewing Reference Services Through The Feminist Lens; Feminist Pedagogy and Special Collections Reference: Shifting the Balance; Filling in the Gaps: Using Zines to Amplify the Voices of People Who Are Silenced in Academic Research; Information of My Own: Peer Reference and Feminist Pedagogy
Social Justice in the Stacks: Opening the Borders of Feminism in LibrariesPart III: Intersectional and Collaborative Work; Intersectionality at the Reference Desk: Lived Experiences of Women of Color Librarians; Reference and Beyond: Aspiring Librarians and Intersectional Feminist Strategies; Feminist Pedagogy and the Critical Catalog; Feminist LibGuides: Towards Inclusive Practices in Guide Creation, Use, and Reference Interactions; Exploring a Feminist Disability Studies Reference Desk; LIS Graduate Student Workers, Feminist Pedagogy, and the Reference Desk: Praxis and a Narrative
Feminist Pedagogy and the Reference Desk: A ConversationPostlude: The Creature Questions its Reflection: Lyrical Feminist Explorations of Reference Desk Interactions; Contributor Biographies; Index
Summary
"This edited collection considers how feminist strategies and philosophies might initiate, reshape, and critique approaches to library reference services"-- Provided by publisher
