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McReynolds, Rosalee – Library Journal, 1985
Focuses on librarians' search for their place in American popular culture, 1876-1950. Discussion covers preposterous caricatures, citations to male and female librarians in "Library Literature," fictional librarians, battle of sexes, and a glamorous image as portrayed in films and theater. Annotated list of 18 fictional works is…
Descriptors: Characterization, Employed Women, Fiction, History
Wheeler, Helen Rippier – Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory, 1978
Details examples of prejudice, suggesting underlying reasons for the same, on the part of professional librarians concerning distribution of the Women's History Research Center's microfilm series. It is concluded that, until prejudice is overcome, the intellectual analysis of gender roles so necessary to changing status of women will be…
Descriptors: Essays, Feminism, Librarians, Library Collections
