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Bathroom Battlegrounds - How Public Restrooms Shape the Gender Order (Paperback)
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Bathroom Battlegrounds - How Public Restrooms Shape the Gender Order (Paperback)
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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.
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