At library school

The author Michele Roberts trained at UCL in the early 1970s
For example, all public libraries in Britain used the Dewey decimal system, which categorised human knowledge as a pyramidal structure. Subjects were arranged one to 10, and under them came sub-divisions, and then sub-divisions of sub-divisions. The system locked subjects into fixed places. Under category seven, Sociology, you could find Women, alongside Lunatics and Gypsies. Men were nowhere to be seen: as designers of the universe, and of classification systems, they did not need to be visible.

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