Sexism in the reading room
Alan Day
(Head of Department of Library and Information Studies, Manchester Polytechnic, Manchester, UK (1979‐1990))
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Abstract
Reflects on how some apparently harmless correspondence in three issues of Notes and Queries, September‐November 1884, regarding the quality of readers′ chairs in the Reading Room of the British Museum, and their usage by readers of both sexes, revealed some unbecoming sexist attitudes and some ungentlemanlike behaviour.
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Citation
Day, A. (1995), "Sexism in the reading room", Library Review, Vol. 44 No. 8, pp. 8-9. https://doi.org/10.1108/00242539510102547
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1995, MCB UP Limited