Ladies and gents : public toilets and gender /

Ladies and gents : public toilets and gender / edited by Olga Gershenson and Barbara Penner. - x, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The private life of public conveniences / The role of the public toilet in civic life / Potty privileging in perspective : gender and family issues in toilet design / Geographies of danger : school toilets in Sub-Saharan Africa / Gender, respectability, and public convenience in Melbourne, Australia, 1859-1902 / Bodily privacy, toilets, and sex discrimination : the problem of "manhood" in a women's prison / Colonial visions of "third world" toilets : a nineteenth-century discourse that haunts contemporary tourism / Avoidance : on some euphemisms for the "smallest room" / Were our customs really beautiful? Designing refugee camp toilets / (Re)Designing the "unmentionable" : female toilets in the twentieth century / Marcel Duchamp's legacy : aesthetics, gender, and national identity in the toilet / Toilet training : Sarah Lucas's toilets and the transmogrification of the body / Stalls between walls : segregated sexed spaces / "Our little secrets" : a Pakistani artist explores the shame and pride of her community's bathroom practices / In the men's room : death and derision in cinematic toilets / "White tiles. Trickling water. A man!" : literary representations of cottaging in London / The Jew on the loo : the toilet in Jewish popular culture, memory, and imagination / Olga Gershenson and Barbara Penner -- Clara Greed -- Kathryn H. Anthony and Meghan Dufresne -- Claudia Mitchell -- Andrew Brown-May and Peg Fraser -- Jami Anderson -- Alison Moore -- Naomi Stead -- Deborah Gans -- Barbara Penner -- Robin Lydenburg -- Kathy Battista -- Alex Schweder -- Bushra Rehman -- Frances Pheasant-Kelly -- Johan Andersson and Ben Campkin -- Nathan Abrams -- Peter Greenaway. Introduction : Potty politics : toilets, gender, and identity. Toilet art : design and cultural representations. Afterword /

1592139396 9781592139392 159213940X 9781592139408

2008051659


Public toilets--Social aspects
Sex discrimination
Gender identity.

GT476 / .L34 2009

628.4508

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