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Title: Bathroom Battlegrounds
Condition: New
Subtitle: How Public Restrooms Shape the Gender Order
Author: Alexander K. Davis
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0520300157
EAN: 9780520300156
ISBN: 9780520300156
Publisher: University of California Press
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Gender Sex & Relationships, LGBTQ+, Social Sciences
Release Date: 28/01/2020
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 23mm
Item Weight: 408g
Release Year: 2020

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