Sheila L. Cavanagh

Queering Bathrooms

Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination

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Produktbeschreibung

In Queering Bathrooms, Sheila L. Cavanagh explores how public toilets demarcate the masculine and the feminine and condition ideas of gender and sexuality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781442610736
• ISBN-10: 1442610735
• Artikelnr.: 29954605

Autorenporträt

Sheila L. Cavanagh

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality, and Excretion
2. Trans Subjects and Gender Misreadings in the Toilet
3. Seeing Gender: Panopticism and the Mirrorical Return
4. Hearing Gender: Acoustic Mirrors — Vocal and Urinary Dis/Symmetries
5. Touching Gender: Abjection and the Hygienic Imagination
6. Sexing Gender: The Homoerotics of the Water Closet
Conclusion
Glossary, by Sheila L. Cavanagh and Melissa White
Notes
Bibliography
Index