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Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality and the Hygienic Imagination by Sheila Cavanagh (2010) University of Toronto Press
Based on 100 interviews with queer, trans and intersex people, this book looks at the politicization of public bathrooms: from the campaigns for gender-neutral spaces, to the harassment experienced by intersex, sex and gender people when they are ‘caught’ using “the wrong bathroom”. Public toilets are sites of rigid gendering and strictly policed heteronormativity, and spaces where trans / queer folk are routinely ‘punished’ for their transgressions. Cavanagh argues that the “cultural politics of excretion” (YES. BEST PHRASE EVER) is linked to the regulation of gender / sexuality - and therefore a site of contestation for queer / trans communities.
Click on the image to read a review by Syrus Marcus Ware. via sexuality-space
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Posted on May 16, 2011 via Sexuality and Space with 218 notes
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the bathroom in mel’s burger bar is fighting the power!!!!! teehee
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WHICH ONE DO I CHOOSE?! LET’S EXAMINE OUR HYGENIC IMAGINIATION Let’s face it, we all poop. That’s no mystery, but what...
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me too, but what are “sex and gender people”?
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I always wondered about this. Yet another book to add to my list.
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Ahhh I’m totally buying this for our centre.
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