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Selected Works of Paulette Rothbauer
Presentation
“People Aren’t Afraid Anymore, But It’s Hard to Find Books:” Reading Practices That Inform the Personal and Social Identities of Self-Identified Lesbian and Queer Young Women
Canadian Association for Information Science/University of Manitoba (2004)
  • Paulette Rothbauer, Western University
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Abstract
A presentation of my dissertation research in which I examine reading as a taken-for-granted and under-studied aspect of information seeking and information use. Specifically, I look at the role of voluntary reading in the negotiation of alternative sexual identities amongst young women (18-23 years of age) who self-identify as lesbian, queer or bisexual.  

Winner of the Student-to-CAIS award for best student abstract
Keywords
  • lesbian,
  • bisexual and queer young women readers,
  • books and reading,
  • women readers
Disciplines
Publication Date
2004
Citation Information
Paulette Rothbauer. "“People Aren’t Afraid Anymore, But It’s Hard to Find Books:” Reading Practices That Inform the Personal and Social Identities of Self-Identified Lesbian and Queer Young Women" Canadian Association for Information Science/University of Manitoba (2004)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/paulette_rothbauer/5/