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- Book Title
- Toilet
- Publication Name
- Toilet : Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing
- Title
- Toilet
- Subtitle
- Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing
- Contributor
- Harvey Molotch (Edited by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0814795897
- EAN
- 9780814795897
- ISBN
- 9780814795897
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Genre
- Society & Culture
- Topic
- Social Sciences
- Release Date
- 17/11/2010
- Release Year
- 2010
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Series
- Nyu Series in Social and Cultural Analysis Ser.
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Type
- Textbook
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 328 Pages
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View "Public Restrooms": A Photo Gallery in The Atlantic Monthly. So much happens in the public toilet that we never talk about. Finding the right door, waiting in line, and using the facilities are often undertaken with trepidation. Don't touch anything. Try not to smell. Avoid eye contact. And for men, don't look down or let your eyes stray. Even washing one's hands are tied to anxieties of disgust and humiliation. And yet other things also happen in these spaces: babies are changed, conversations are had, make-up is applied, and notes are scrawled for posterity. Beyond these private issues, there are also real public concerns: problems of public access, ecological waste, and-in many parts of the world-sanitation crises. At public events, why are women constantly waiting in long lines but not men? Where do the homeless go when cities decide to close public sites? Should bathrooms become standardized to accommodate the disabled? Is it possible to create a unisex bathroom for transgendered people? In Toilet, noted sociologist Harvey Molotch and Laura Noren bring together twelve essays by urbanists, historians and cultural analysts (among others) to shed light on the public restroom. These noted scholars offer an assessment of our historical and contemporary practices, showing us the intricate mechanisms through which even the physical design of restrooms-the configurations of stalls, the number of urinals, the placement of sinks, and the continuing segregation of women's and men's bathrooms-reflect and sustain our cultural attitudes towards gender, class, and disability. Based on a broad range of conceptual, political, and down-to-earth viewpoints, the original essays in this volume show how the bathroom-as a practical matter-reveals competing visions of pollution, danger and distinction. Although what happens in the toilet usually stays in the toilet, this brilliant, revelatory, and often funny book aims to bring it all out into the open, proving that profound and meaningful history can be made even in the can. Contributors: Ruth Barcan, Irus Braverman, Mary Ann Case, Olga Gershenson, Clara Greed, Zena Kamash,Terry Kogan, Harvey Molotch, Laura Noren, Barbara Penner, Brian Reynolds, and David Serlin.
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New York University Press
ISBN-10
0814795897
ISBN-13
9780814795897
eBay Product ID (ePID)
108979804
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Toilet : Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Series
Nyu Series in Social and Cultural Analysis Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
328 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
1
Lc Classification Number
Gt476.T65 2010
Reviews
[T]his book offers precise insights--want to keep a public bathroom clean? Stick some flowers there. And it often cleverly illuminates whats in plain sight--say, the reasons why New York has so few female cabbies--but is usually ignored or assiduously avoided, "When Molotch and Norén let slip a few "pissings" or "pees," the book becomes livelier, as is befitting of the subject. And the inclusion of essays from scholars of many different disciplines--gender studies, disability rights, architecture--makes this a toilet book not to be missed." -Book Bench, The New Yorker Blog ,, ( " Toilet opens the door to a profound and fascinating understanding of the way we use and are abused by public conveniences." )-(Howard S. Becker),(author of Outsiders: Studies In The Sociology Of Deviance ), "We may not feel comfortable discussing them, but questions of where and how we do our business, particularly in public, have a tremendous impact on our everyday lives. That's why Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing , a new collection of academic essays, is so necessary." -Salon.com,, ( "Peeing is political. The authors of Toilet show us how. In provocative essays from a range of perspectives, we learn what toilets (and their lack) teach us--about hierarchy, inequality, the body, aesthetics and politics. Using toilets as social and cultural prisms, they analyze global collective (in)action, outlining the deeply personal consequences for us all. This is wickedly smart, pointed and passionate public interest scholarship at its best.." )-(Lisa Duggan),(author of Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy ), ( "Who could have imagined? A book that weaves cutting edge gender theory into urban planning policy by way of the lowly toilet? A wondrous compendium." )-(Jane Mansbridge),(Adams Professor in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University), When Molotch and Norén let slip a few pissings or pees, the book becomes livelier, as is befitting of the subject. And the inclusion of essays from scholars of many different disciplines--gender studies, disability rights, architecture--makes this a toilet book not to be missed., "An incredibly smart book about the importance of the toilet, especially for urban dwellers. I will never look at a toilet the same again." -Mitchell Duneier,author of Sidewalk, "We may not feel comfortable discussing them, but questions of where and how we do our business, particularly in public, have a tremendous impact on our everyday lives. That's why Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing , a new collection of academic essays, is so necessary." -Salon.com, ( "Not only an indispensable tool for pro-poor anti-debt activists, but also a very useful synthesis that can and should be used in classrooms." )-(Gilbert Achcar,),(Professor of Development Studies at the School of Orientatal and African Studies, University of London ), An incredibly smart book about the importance of the toilet, especially for urban dwellers. I will never look at a toilet the same again., "In Toilet, academics from the field of sociology, law, urban planning, gender studies, archeology, and architecture ponder the meaning of a room some people can't even call by name." -Kate Tuttle, The Boston Globe, We may not feel comfortable discussing them, but questions of where and how we do our business, particularly in public, have a tremendous impact on our everyday lives. Thats why Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing, a new collection of academic essays, is so necessary., "Peeing is political. The authors of Toilet show us how. In provocative essays from a range of perspectives, we learn what toilets (and their lack) teach us--about hierarchy, inequality, the body, aesthetics and politics. Using toilets as social and cultural prisms, they analyze global collective (in)action, outlining the deeply personal consequences for us all. This is wickedly smart, pointed and passionate public interest scholarship at its best.." -Lisa Duggan,author of Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics and the Attack on Democracy, " Toilet opens the door to a profound and fascinating understanding of the way we use and are abused by public conveniences." -Howard S. Becker,author of Outsiders: Studies In The Sociology Of Deviance, "[T]his book offers precise insights--want to keep a public bathroom clean? Stick some flowers there. And it often cleverly illuminates what's in plain sight--say, the reasons why New York has so few female cabbies--but is usually ignored or assiduously avoided." - The Atlantic, This profound and surprising book takes up a subject usually kept private: the public restroom. These scholarly but mostly accessible new examinations of the topic provide fascinating insights on cultural notions of cleanliness and filth, public and private., In Toilet, academics from the field of sociology, law, urban planning, gender studies, archeology, and architecture ponder the meaning of a room some people can't even call by name., "The politics of the loo, sexual as well as cultural, are taken up in a new book, Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing , edited by Harvey Molotch and Laura Norn. It aims to tackle the language around toilets and open up debates that have gone on, so to speak, behind closed doors and that never get resolved. " - Irish Times, "When Molotch and Norén let slip a few "pissings" or "pees," the book becomes livelier, as is befitting of the subject. And the inclusion of essays from scholars of many different disciplines--gender studies, disability rights, architecture--makes this a toilet book not to be missed." -Book Bench, The New Yorker Blog, Ranging from studies of Roman latrines to quasi-ethnographic studies of contemporary restroom design projects, the authors rigorously and sometimes cleverly expose moral panics, gender ideologies, and contradictions of bathroom design, accessibility, and use., "When Molotch and Norn let slip a few "pissings" or "pees," the book becomes livelier, as is befitting of the subject. And the inclusion of essays from scholars of many different disciplines--gender studies, disability rights, architecture--makes this a toilet book not to be missed." -Book Bench, The New Yorker Blog, "An incredibly smart book about the importance of the toilet, especially for urban dwellers. I will never look at a toilet the same again." Mitchell Duneier, author of Sidewalk "The politics of the loo, sexual as well as cultural, are taken up in a new book, Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing, edited by Harvey Molotch and Laura Norn. It aims to tackle the language around toilets and open up debates that have gone on, so to speak, behind closed doors and that never get resolved. Why, for example, are we so resistant to unisex toilets? How bad would it be to have men and women going to the loo side by side? ... With contributions by sociologists, anthropologists and architects... the ideas are fascinating." - Gemma Tipton, Irish Times "[T]his book offers precise insights--want to keep a public bathroom clean? Stick some flowers there. And it often cleverly illuminates what's in plain sight--say, the reasons why New York has so few female cabbies--but is usually ignored or assiduously avoided." - The Atlantic, Peeing is political. The authors of Toilet show us how. In provocative essays from a range of perspectives, we learn what toilets (and their lack) teach us--about hierarchy, inequality, the body, aesthetics and politics. Using toilets as social and cultural prisms, they analyze global collective (in)action, outlining the deeply personal consequences for us all. This is wickedly smart, pointed and passionate public interest scholarship at its best.., Toilet opens the door to a profound and fascinating understanding of the way we use and are abused by public conveniences., The politics of the loo, sexual as well as cultural, are taken up in a new book, Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing, edited by Harvey Molotch and Laura Norén. It aims to tackle the language around toilets and open up debates that have gone on, so to speak, behind closed doors and that never get resolved, "Ranging from studies of Roman latrines to quasi-ethnographic studies of contemporary restroom design projects, the authors rigorously and sometimes cleverly expose moral panics, gender ideologies, and contradictions of bathroom design, accessibility, and use."-J.L. Croissant, Choice, The 12 essays in Toilet make clear that public toilets are anything but neutral, and argue that, in fact, restrooms-not just their design but where and to whom they are available-are loaded with cultural insights into views on race, sex, ability, and class...Toilet imparts a lesson: Pay attention. Those issues that most quietly fall into the background, unquestioned and seemingly benign, may be the most loaded and deserving of scrutiny., ( "When Molotch and Norén let slip a few "pissings" or "pees," the book becomes livelier, as is befitting of the subject. And the inclusion of essays from scholars of many different disciplines--gender studies, disability rights, architecture--makes this a toilet book not to be missed." )-(Book Bench, The New Yorker Blog ),(), Who could have imagined? A book that weaves cutting edge gender theory into urban planning policy by way of the lowly toilet? A wondrous compendium., "An incredibly smart book about the importance of the toilet, especially for urban dwellers. I will never look at a toilet the same again." Mitchell Duneier, author ofSidewalk, ("We may not feel comfortable discussing them, but questions of where and how we do our business, particularly in public, have a tremendous impact on our everyday lives. That's why Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing , a new collection of academic essays, is so necessary." )-(Salon.com),(), "The politics of the loo, sexual as well as cultural, are taken up in a new book, Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing , edited by Harvey Molotch and Laura Norén. It aims to tackle the language around toilets and open up debates that have gone on, so to speak, behind closed doors and that never get resolved. " - Irish Times, "The 12 essays in Toilet make clear that public toilets are anything but neutral, and argue that, in fact, restrooms-not just their design but where and to whom they are available-are loaded with cultural insights into views on race, sex, ability, and class...Toilet imparts a lesson: Pay attention. Those issues that most quietly fall into the background, unquestioned and seemingly benign, may be the most loaded and deserving of scrutiny."- Bitch Magazine, "Who could have imagined? A book that weaves cutting edge gender theory into urban planning policy by way of the lowly toilet? A wondrous compendium." -Jane Mansbridge,Adams Professor in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, "This profound and surprising book takes up a subject usually kept private: the public restroom. These scholarly but mostly accessible new examinations of the topic provide fascinating insights on cultural notions of cleanliness and filth, public and private." -Rachel Bridgewater, Library Journal
Table of Content
Acknowledgments1 IntroductionHarvey MolotchRest Stop Part I2 Dirty SpaceRuth Barcan Rest StopBryan Reynolds3 Which Way to Look? Exploring Latrine Use in the Roman World Zena Kamash Rest Stop4 Potty TrainingIrus Braverman Rest StoPart I5 Only Dogs Are Free to PeeLaura Noren Rest Stop6 Creating a Nonsexist Restroom Clara Greed Rest Stop7 Sex SeparationTerry S. Kogan Rest Stop8 Pissing without PitDavid Serlin Rest StopPart III: Building in the Future9 The Restroom RevolutionOlga Gershenson Rest StopJonathan Head10 Why Not Abolish Laws of Urinary Segregation? Mary Anne Case Rest Stop11 Entangled with a UserBarbara Penner Rest Stop: Toilet Bloom @ Bryant Park 12 On Not Making HistoryHarvey MolotchNotes About the ContributorsIndex
Copyright Date
2010
Topic
Construction / Plumbing, Sociology / General, Gender Studies
Lccn
2010-018796
Dewey Decimal
392.3/6
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Social Science
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