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Ladies and Gents – Public Toilets and Gender

Autor Olga Gershenson, Barbara Penner
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 iul 2009
Public toilets provide an 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 also explores the cultural meanings, histories, and ideologies of public toilets as gendered spaces.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781592139408
ISBN-10: 159213940X
Pagini: 262
Ilustrații: 33 Halftones
Dimensiuni: 151 x 226 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: ML – Temple University Press

Recenzii

"Thoughtful analysis of the place of toilets in modern culture and psyche has often been as hard to find as a decent public convenience in any major Western city. Ladies and Gents is a timely and educational addition to the unheralded and hitherto sorely neglected field of toilet studies."
Rose George, author of The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters

Notă biografică

Olga Gershenson is Assistant Professor in the Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of Gesher: Russian Theatre in Israel—A Study of Cultural Colonization.
Barbara Penner is a Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, author of Newlyweds on Tour: Honeymooning in Nineteenth-Century America and co-editor of Gender Space Architecture.

Cuprins

Foreword 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction: The Private Life of Public Conveniences
Potty Politics: Toilets, Gender, and Identity 
1. The Role of the Public Toilet in Civic Life 
2. Potty Privileging in Perspective: Gender and Family Issues in Toilet Design 
3. Geographies of Danger: School Toilets in Sub-Saharan Africa 
4. Gender, Respectability, and Public Convenience in Melbourne, Australia, 1859–1902 
5. Bodily Privacy, Toilets, and Sex Discrimination: The Problem of “Manhood” in a Women’s Prison 
6. Colonial Visions of “Third World” Toilets: A Nineteenth-Century Discourse That Haunts Contemporary Tourism 
7. Avoidance: On Some Euphemisms for the “Smallest Room”
Toilet Art: Design and Cultural Representations 
8. Were Our Customs Really Beautiful? Designing Refugee Camp Toilets 
9. (Re)Designing the “Unmentionable”: Female Toilets in the Twentieth Century 
10. Marcel Duchamp’s Legacy: Aesthetics, Gender, and National Identity in the Toilet 
11. Toilet Training: Sarah Lucas’s Toilets and the Transmogrification of the Body 
12. Stalls between Walls: Segregated Sexed Spaces 
13. “Our Little Secrets”: A Pakistani Artist Explores the Shame and Pride of Her Community’s Bathroom Practices 
14. In the Men’s Room: Death and Derision in Cinematic Toilets 
15. “White Tiles. Trickling Water. A Man!” Literary Representations of Cottaging in London 
16. The Jew on the Loo: The Toilet in Jewish Popular Culture, Memory, and Imagination 
Afterword 
Contributors 
Index