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Reproductive failure and information work: An autoethnography

Schlesselman-Tarango, Gina

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Title
Reproductive failure and information work: An autoethnography
Author(s)
Schlesselman-Tarango, Gina
Issue Date
2019
Keyword(s)
  • Reproductive failure
  • Miscarriage
  • Information work
Abstract
"In providing an autoethnography of the author's own reproductive failures while working as a librarian, this paper considers the ways in which neoliberalism maps disability onto non-(re)productive bodies thought to be outside the realm of individual control. The author calls upon feminist disability theory to surface themes of embodiment and relationality and to unearth the unrecognized labor of reproductive failure. Suggesting that library and information studies would do well to take seriously all sorts of ""failures,"" the author recommends that we turn to archives of failure; doing so would allow for a richer and more nuanced exploration of how neoliberalism casts some bodies and minds as ""normal"" and others as not, and makes the necessary space to, rather than celebrate the triumphant, recognize the failed."
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press. The School of Information Sciences at Illinois. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Library Trends 67 (3). Winter 2019
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/104669
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1353/lib.2019.0005
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Copyright 2019 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Library Trends 67 (3) Winter 2019: Disabled Adults in Libraries PRIMARY
Library Trends 67 (3) Winter 2019: Disabled Adults in Libraries. Edited by Jessica Schomberg and Shanna Hollich