Male chauvinist aspects in the Organization of Knowledge: the representation of women in documentary instruments

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa, Brisa Pozzi de
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Tolentino, Vinicius de Souza
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Informação & Informação
• Texto Completo: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/informacao/article/view/31448
• topic: Knowledge Organization; Gender; Woman; Thesauri; Cataloging Rules; Organización del Conocimiento; Género; Mujer; Tesauros; Reglas de Catalogación; Organização do Conhecimento; Gênero; Mulher; Tesauros; Regras de Catalogação

Introduction: Addressing the topic women is justified by the way in which this subject has triggered transformations that need to be understood by the Knowledge Organization (KO), involving both thematic and descriptive aspects. Research can not be detached from the social context, because the limits and definitions about the theme are not fixed and indefinable and need discussion. Objectives: It consists in the analysis of descriptors (in thesauri) and rules (in AACR2r) that provoke the indication of male chauvinist representations, since it is essential that professionals have a critical look at the use of said instruments. Methodology: Thus, the paper analyzes womenbased representation in three different instruments: the Thesaurus for Gender and Women Studies (TEG), the Legal Thesaurus of the Superior Court of Justice (TJ STJ), and the Anglo American Cataloging Rules, 2nd edition (AACR2r). Therefore, to ascertain what is proposed, the systematization of the theoretical referential consists of the design on KO, the woman and the instruments. Results: The analyzes demonstrate male chauvinist positions in the investigated cuts, allowing to verify the need to revise the three instruments, demanding updating of the concepts so that the descriptors and the rules remain coherent with the social (re) configuration free of prejudice. Conclusions: If the process of representation is imbued with prejudices, either because the instrument is not updated or due to lack of knowledge regarding the gender domain, the impact will have a negative effect on the public user.