Queering bathrooms : gender, sexuality, and the hygienic imagination
The intersection of public washrooms and gender has become increasingly politicized in recent years: queer and trans folk have been harassed for allegedly using the 'wrong' washroom, while widespread campaigns have advocated for more gender-neutral facilities. In this book, the author explores how public toilets demarcate the masculine and the feminine and condition ideas of gender and sexuality. Based on 100 interviews with GLBT and/or intersex peoples in major North American cities, the author delves into the ways that queer and trans communities challenge the rigid gendering and heteronormative composition of public washrooms. Incorporating theories from queer studies, trans studies, psychoanalysis, and the work of Michel Foucault, the author argues that the cultural politics of excretion is intimately related to the regulation of gender and sexuality. Public toilets house the illicit and act as repositories for the social unconscious. Also offering suggestions for imagining a more inclusive public washroom, the text asserts that although toilets are not typically considered within traditional scholarly bounds, they form a crucial part of our modern understanding of sex and gender.-- publisher's description
1 online resource (ix, 295 pages)
9781442687134, 9781442699977, 1442687134, 1442699973
751053893
Queering bathrooms : gender, sexuality, and excretion
Trans subjects and gender misreadings in the toilet
Seeing gender : panopticism and the mirrorical return
Hearing gender : acoustic mirrors
vocal and urinary dis/symmetries
Touching gender : abjection and the hygienic imagination
Sexing gender : the homoerotics of the water closet
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011
English