id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14795 Ariel, Joan Feminist Thought in American Librarianship (Book Review) 1993-03-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1962 80 44 Indeed, Baum might be considered a pioneer for making one of the few attempts to date to trace the impact of various kinds of feminism on the thought and political agenda of American library women. In a brief introductory paragraph, she dismisses out of hand obtrusive techniques of data gathering such as sur- veys and interviews, and makes vague and undocumented references to inter- nal debates about the nature of 'library feminism' and defensiveness among library women in an effort to justify her design of an empirical, unobtrusive study. cache/crl-14795.pdf txt/crl-14795.txt