Keywords:
Sex role-United States.
;
Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
Today's debates about transgender inclusion and public restrooms may seem unmistakably contemporary, but they have a surprisingly long and storied history in the United States--one that concerns more than mere "potty politics." Alexander K. Davis takes readers behind the scenes of two hundred years' worth of conflicts over the existence, separation, and equity of gendered public restrooms, documenting at each step how bathrooms have been entangled with bigger cultural matters: the importance of the public good, the reach of institutional inclusion, the nature of gender difference, and, above all, the myriad privileges of social status. Chronicling the debut of nineteenth-century "comfort stations," twentieth-century mandates requiring equal-but-separate men's and women's rooms, and twenty-first-century uproar over laws like North Carolina's "bathroom bill," Davis reveals how public restrooms are far from marginal or unimportant social spaces. Instead, they are--and always have been--consequential sites in which ideology, institutions, and inequality collide.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780520971660
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5966834
DDC:
363.72940810973
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Bathroom Battlegrounds -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Politicizing the Potty -- 2. Professionalizing Plumbing -- 3. Regulating Restrooms -- 4. Working against the Washroom -- 5. Leveraging the Loo -- 6. Transforming the Toilet -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Data and Methodology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Permalink
