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Ladies and Gents

Public Toilets and Gender

Barbara Penner editor Olga Gershenson editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Temple University Press,U.S.

Published:15th Jul '09

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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.Talking about toilets--in all their material, social, symbolic and discursive complexity

"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

ISBN: 9781592139408

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm

Weight: 367g

262 pages