ISBN:
9781592139408
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 250 Seiten
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Electronic books
;
Gender identity
;
Public toilets - Social aspects
;
Sex discrimination
;
Bedürfnisanstalt
;
Geschlechterforschung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Bedürfnisanstalt
;
Geschlechterforschung
Abstract:
Contents; Foreword / Judith Plaskow; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Private Life of Public Conveniences / Olga Gershenson and Barbara Penner; Potty Politics: Toilets, Gender, and Identity; 1. The Role of the Public Toilet in Civic Life / Clara Greed; 2. Potty Privileging in Perspective: Gender and Family Issues in Toilet Design / Kathryn H. Anthony and Meghan Dufresne; 3. Geographies of Danger: School Toilets in Sub-Saharan Africa / Claudia Mitchell; 4. Gender, Respectability, and Public Convenience in Melbourne, Australia, 1859-1902 / Andrew Brown-May and Peg Fraser
Abstract:
5. Bodily Privacy, Toilets, and Sex Discrimination: The Problem of "Manhood" in a Women's Prison / Jami Anderson6. Colonial Visions of "Third World" Toilets: A Nineteenth-Century Discourse That Haunts Contemporary Tourism / Alison Moore; 7. Avoidance: On Some Euphemisms for the "Smallest Room" / Naomi Stead; Toilet Art: Design and Cultural Representations; 8. Were Our Customs Really Beautiful? Designing Refugee Camp Toilets / Deborah Gans; 9. (Re)Designing the "Unmentionable": Female Toilets in the Twentieth Century / Barbara Penner
Abstract:
10. Marcel Duchamp's Legacy: Aesthetics, Gender, and National Identity in the Toilet / Robin Lydenberg11. Toilet Training: Sarah Lucas's Toilets and the Transmogrification of the Body / Kathy Battista; 12. Stalls between Walls: Segregated Sexed Spaces / Alex Schweder; 13. "Our Little Secrets": A Pakistani Artist Explores the Shame and Pride of Her Community's Bathroom Practices / Bushra Rehman; 14. In the Men's Room: Death and Derision in Cinematic Toilets / Frances Pheasant-Kelly
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http://swb.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=713734
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http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=30896
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