ISBN:
1299850677
,
1592139418
,
9781299850675
,
9781592139415
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 250 pages)
,
illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Ladies and gents
DDC:
305.3
Keywords:
Sex discrimination
;
Gender identity
;
Public toilets Social aspects
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Public toilets provide a unique opportunity for interrogating how conventional assumptions about the body, sexuality, privacy, and technology are formed in public spaces and inscribed through design across cultures. This collection of original essays from international scholars is the first to explore the cultural meanings, histories, and ideologies of public toilets as gendered spaces. Ladies and Gents consists of two sets of essays. The first, ""Potty Politics: Toilets, Gender and Identity, "" establishes the importance of accessible, secure public toilets to the creat
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
Abstract:
15. "White Tiles. Trickling Water. A Man!" Literary Representations of Cottaging in London / Johan Andersson and Ben Campkin16. The Jew on the Loo: The Toilet in Jewish Popular Culture, Memory, and Imagination / Nathan Abrams; Afterword / Peter Greenaway; Contributors; Index
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:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
