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... difficult to address. This article first describes some of the ways that public toilets perpetuate the subordination of women within a framework in which everyone must identify either as a woman or a man. Public bathrooms help socialize women into acceptance of inferiority while constantly communicating...

...Dharman Jeyasingham Across many Western countries, a substantial proportion of public toilets have either closed or been materially adapted in order to prevent their use for sex, while sexual interactions in public spaces generally, and toilets in particular, are policed more effectively than ever...

... of Open Defecation: Informality, Body, and Infrastructure in Mumbai.” Antipode 47 , no. 1 : 98 – 120 . Gershenson Olga Penner Barbara , eds. 2009 . Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender . Philadelphia : Temple University Press . Jewitt Sarah . 2011 . “Geographies...

...Joel Sanders; Susan Stryker A long-simmering moral panic over the presence of transgender people in sex-segregated public toilets has reached an acute state since the spring of 2015, as an unprecedented wave of mass-culture visibility for trans* issues has intersected with recent court decisions...

...Alison Kafer This essay explores the politics of “hovering” in public restrooms, or the practice of refusing to sit on public toilets. How do such practices reveal a fundamental disregard for others? Drawing on transgender and disability studies, I trace the effects of such practices...

...Ben Fawcett About one-third of the global human population does not have access to an effective toilet. As a result, disease-carrying feces contaminate the human environment causing more than seven hundred thousand child deaths each year from diarrhea, poor child development as a result of worm...

... in the developing world, campaigning particularly for toilets for those suffering the indignity of life without such essential facilities—somewhere to “go.” He is coauthor of The Last Taboo: Opening the Door on the Global Sanitation Crisis (2008) and is currently a lecturer at the International WaterCentre...

... system. The segue of Stop 4 into Stop 5 underscores the overall aim of the docu­ ment pack, which is to teach history by means ofthe interactive encounter. At Stop 4, the student enters the intimate, scatological field of the Other the east end of the Exhibition Hall, where the prisoners toilets were...

... . Rapaport Herman . 1993 . Milton and the Postmodern . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press . Robson Steve . 2013 . “Six of the World's 7 Billion People Have Mobile Phones … but Only 4.5 Billion Have a Toilet Says UN Report.” Daily Mail , March 22 . www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

... by the saucers tobacco and gage smoke richly blended . . . yowzah gwine smoke a little ob dis hyah sheeit gib de wrinkles in mah brain a process! Upstairs in the men s room at the Roseland Ballroom he [Slothrop] swoons kneeling over a toilet bowl, vomiting beer, hamburgers, homefries, chef s salad with French...

..., the Queen s godson, poet, wit, scholar, soldier, and sanitary engineer (he is now better known for his invention of the flush toilet than for his literary efforts) in his own peculiar way, a true Ren­ aissance man. If anything holds these profiles together it is the evi­ dence they provide of the richness...

..., leaving protesters without food, water, or access to toilets (the legality of such a technique is still being contested in UK and EU courts). Police continued to harass and insult protesters throughout November and December, using horse and baton charges; dragging one student, Jody McIntyre, from...

... the nationalizing eye to it. Before giving a lecture, I went to the toilet, where I noticed that many surfaces (the toilet itself, the tap, the paper-towel dispenser, etc.) were stamped with the words American Standard. At first, I thought that some kind of government committee had studied all the aspects...

..., and perhaps just a bit of an anticlimax, there is Sir John Harington, the Queen s godson, poet, wit, scholar, soldier, and sanitary engineer (he is now better known for his invention of the flush toilet than for his literary efforts) in his own peculiar way, a true Ren­ aissance man. If anything holds...

... in these united-against-us states where interrogation rooms never close, police at the Mt. Calvary correctional facility put silenc- ers on crucifixion nails, beat us into interstellar space with wet tele- 512 Theodore A. Harris phone books, give rectal examinations with toilet plungers in their precinct...

..., these cats. They always make a point of coming on in the middle of the most pathetic scenes, when they take the center of the stage, and proceed to go through one or other of their peculiar toilet exercises. The two most interesting anecdotes of stage cats that I know, how­ ever, omit all reference...

... (pp. 60-71), Slothrop is put under light narcosis to test his subconscious feelings about Negroes, and under the drugs he hallucinates a descent down into a toilet to retrieve a beloved harmonica. Late in the book, Slothrop is roaming through the Occupied Zone in Germany, and amidst his sudden...

... about $500,000, not including many thousands in donated office space. Donors could also order take out for occupiers, and even the local McDonald’s lent its bathrooms to the cause, after the city forbid portable toilets. City ordinances banned amplification devices, spurring the use...

... begin most profitably with the cosmetic rites, Belinda at the toilet table, where awful Beauty puts on all its Arms. The busy Sylphs surround their darling Care; These set the Head, and those divide the Hair, Some fold the Sleeve, while others plait the Gown; And Betty's prais d for Labours not her...

... of collected and fabricated balls beach balls, tennis balls, marbles, a grapefruit, the copper float from a toilet, etc. to fill in a circle on the floor. Four music stands placed ninety degrees apart on the cir­ cumference of the circle whimsically suggest both the directions of the compass and the music...