Ladies and Gents by Olga Gershenson

Ladies and Gents by Olga Gershenson

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Summary

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.

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Ladies and Gents by Olga Gershenson

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 cityLadies 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

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.

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ISBN 13 9781592139408
ISBN 10 159213940X
Title Ladies and Gents
Author Olga Gershenson
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.
Year published 2009-07-15
Number of pages 262
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.