Title & Author:

Ladies and gents : public toilets and gender / edited by Olga Gershenson and Barbara Penner.

Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2009.

Description:

x, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
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.

Summary:

"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 creation of inclusive cities, work, and learning environments. The second set of essays, "Toilet Art: Design and Cultural Representations," discusses public toilets as spaces of representation and representational spaces, with reference to architectural design, humor, film, theater, art, and popular culture. Compelling visual materials and original artwork are included throughout, depicting subjects as varied as female urinals, art installations sited in public restrooms, and the toilet in contemporary art."--Pub. desc.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

9781592139392 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1592139396 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781592139408 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
159213940X (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Public toilets Social aspects.
Sex discrimination.
Gender identity.
Gender Identity
Toilettes publiques Aspect social.
Discrimination sexuelle.
Identité de genre.
sex discrimination.
sex role.
Public bathrooms.
Toaletter sociala aspekter.
Könsdiskriminering.
Könsidentitet.

Added entries:

Gershenson, Olga, 1969-
Penner, Barbara, 1970-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 263642
Call No.: BIB 194859
Status: Available