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Description for Ladies and Gents
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Gershenson, Olga; Penner, Barbara. Num Pages: 262 pages, 33 Halftones. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHBK5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 458. Weight in Grams: 349.
Talking about toilets--in all their material, social, symbolic and discursive complexity
Talking about toilets--in all their material, social, symbolic and discursive complexity
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
Number of Pages
262
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781592139408
SKU
V9781592139408
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Gershenson
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.
Reviews for Ladies and Gents
"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 ... Read more