Description
| Product ID: | 9780520300156 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Bathroom Battlegrounds |
| Subtitle: | How Public Restrooms Shape the Gender Order |
| Authors: | Author: Alexander K. Davis |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Social discrimination and social justice, Social discrimination & inequality, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: ‘trans’, transgender people and gender variance, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism, Gay & Lesbian studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-01-28 |
