TY - BOOK AU - Gershenson,Olga AU - Penner,Barbara TI - Ladies and gents: public toilets and gender SN - 1592139396 AV - GT476 .L34 2009 U1 - 628.4508 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Philadelphia PB - Temple University Press KW - Public toilets KW - Social aspects KW - Sex discrimination KW - Gender identity N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; The private life of public conveniences; Olga Gershenson and Barbara Penner --; Potty politics : toilets, gender, and identity; The role of the public toilet in civic life; Clara Greed --; Potty privileging in perspective : gender and family issues in toilet design; Kathryn H. Anthony and Meghan Dufresne --; Geographies of danger : school toilets in Sub-Saharan Africa; Claudia Mitchell --; Gender, respectability, and public convenience in Melbourne, Australia, 1859-1902; Andrew Brown-May and Peg Fraser --; Bodily privacy, toilets, and sex discrimination : the problem of "manhood" in a women's prison; Jami Anderson --; Colonial visions of "third world" toilets : a nineteenth-century discourse that haunts contemporary tourism; Alison Moore --; Avoidance : on some euphemisms for the "smallest room"; Naomi Stead --; Toilet art : design and cultural representations; Were our customs really beautiful? Designing refugee camp toilets; Deborah Gans --; (Re)Designing the "unmentionable" : female toilets in the twentieth century; Barbara Penner --; Marcel Duchamp's legacy : aesthetics, gender, and national identity in the toilet; Robin Lydenburg --; Toilet training : Sarah Lucas's toilets and the transmogrification of the body; Kathy Battista --; Stalls between walls : segregated sexed spaces; Alex Schweder --; "Our little secrets" : a Pakistani artist explores the shame and pride of her community's bathroom practices; Bushra Rehman --; In the men's room : death and derision in cinematic toilets; Frances Pheasant-Kelly --; "White tiles. Trickling water. A man!" : literary representations of cottaging in London; Johan Andersson and Ben Campkin --; The Jew on the loo : the toilet in Jewish popular culture, memory, and imagination; Nathan Abrams --; Afterword; Peter Greenaway ER -