A review by viccro
The Power to Name: Locating the Limits of Subject Representation in Libraries by Hope A. Olson

5.0

This is a really well thought out book that is unfortunately just as relevant today as the day it was written. Unlike Berman's Prejudices and Antipathies, most of the concerns that Hope Olson brings up have not yet been addressed by the Library of Congress. In large part this is because she does not critique individual subject headings as much as the structure that they exist within...a much more systemic issue that would take significant change to remedy.
Given all the research that Olson does into other fields for this book, I find it really interesting that she never uses the word "intersectionality", which had been coined by Kimberle Crenshaw in 1989, years before this book was written.