families we choose: Lesbians, gays, kinship (Record no. 1848272)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20260416101629.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780231110938 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION | |
| Terms of availability | Texual |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | RTL |
| Transcribing agency | RTL |
| 084 ## - COLON CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Assigning agency | RTL |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Weston, Kath |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1234903 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | families we choose: Lesbians, gays, kinship |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Columbia University Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1991 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Other physical details | xxi, 261p. |
| Dimensions | includes bibliographical references and index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Based on a trip to the now abandoned Mexican mercury mining town of San Felipe Nuevo Mercurio, The Company explores the development of mercury mining as a technology and its present environmental consequences, both predictable and unforeseen, in what Cristina Rivera Garza terms "an exemplary disappropriative work."<br/><br/>In a book that subverts both textual and graphic expectations, part a involves a rewriting of Amparo Dávila's "The Houseguest," changing specific aspects of the text: verb tenses are transposed to the future; the houseguest becomes the menacing presence of The Company; and the domestic helper who suffers the intimidation of The Company along with her unnamed female employer is the machine. In part b, scientific reports dating from the 1950s to the present day, conversations with experts and miners, and excerpts from the story of "Long, Tall José" construct a history of mercury mining in the area and the subsequent environmental contamination. In both sections, text is accompanied by images that range from Gerber Bicecci's intervened photographs of the ghost town and the surrounding area to technical diagrams and reinterpreted maps, plus pictograms from Manuel Felguérez's La máquina estética (1975).As Rivera Garza says in her epilogue, "Gerber Bicecci moves us toward the past and the future, without for an instant forgetting the present we share . . . Nothing is at peace here, everything is at stake." |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Gays - United States |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1234904 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Kinship - United States |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1234905 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Gay couples- United States |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1234906 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Colon Classification (CC) |
| Koha item type | Textbook |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Colon Classification (CC) | Ratan Tata Library | Ratan Tata Library | 2026-04-16 | RT1528620 | 2026-04-16 | 2026-04-16 | Textbook |