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By Olga Gershenson,Barbara Penner

ISBN-10: 1592139396

ISBN-13: 9781592139392

ISBN-10: 159213940X

ISBN-13: 9781592139408

Public bathrooms supply a different chance for interrogating how traditional assumptions concerning the physique, sexuality, privateness, and expertise are shaped in public areas and inscribed via layout throughout cultures. This choice of unique essays from overseas students is the 1st to discover the cultural meanings, histories, and ideologies of public bathrooms as gendered spaces.

Ladies and Gents consists of 2 units of essays. the 1st, "Potty Politics: bathrooms, Gender and Identity," establishes the significance of obtainable, safe public bathrooms to the production of inclusive towns, paintings, and studying environments. the second one set of essays, "Toilet paintings: layout and Cultural Representations," discusses public bathrooms as areas of illustration and representational areas, just about architectural layout, humor, movie, theater, paintings, and pop culture. Compelling visible fabrics and unique paintings are incorporated all through, depicting matters as diverse as woman urinals, artwork installations sited in public restrooms, and the lavatory in modern art.

Taken jointly, those seventeen essays show that public bathrooms are frequently websites the place gendered our bodies compete for assets and recognition—and the stakes are high.

Contributors contain: Nathan Abrams, Jami L. Anderson, Johan Andersson, Kathryn H. Anthony, Kathy Battista, Andrew Brown-May, Ben Campkin, Meghan Dufresne, Peg Fraser, Deborah Gans, Clara Greed, Robin Lydenberg, Claudia Mitchell, Alison Moore, Frances Pheasant-Kelly, Bushra Rehman, Alex Schweder, Naomi Stead, and the editors.

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