I was going to make a post about the return of the “Urinary Leash” and the history of the women who fought for Women’s facilities the FIRST time, and I still might, just to delve into the individual women’s stories a bit more. In the meantime, here’s a wonderful article I found during my cursory look around on the topic.
I’ve tried to find more about the author, Claudia Elphick, who was an undergrad student at the time of writing this, to see if she’s made a stance on the current single sex spaces issue. I don’t have any social media though so my search has only turned up other articles she’s written.
It says she is a grad student, so there probably isn't too much by her, but she might have an account on academia or researchnet.
Oh, I do have a snapshot of the article from 2020! Lol... i thought i'd seen that before. Here are a few articles/books from my zotero. I hosted a reading group that we spent a session on toilet rooms, so i read and added a bunch on them when i was researching it. I remember some of them being really great. One of my mentors, she had a bunch of students researching toilets in the global south and period poverty. It was so awesome seeing the field work presentations of her students. This was still in the 2010s... so while these titles are about gender, they are not full blow trans nonsense. One of the edited books i wrote a chapter for, has some of it. It's pretty depressing.
Anthony, Kathryn H., and Meghan Dufresne. “Potty Priviledging in Perspective: Gender and Family Issues in Toilet Design.” In Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender, edited by Olga Gershenson and Barbara Penner, 48–61. Temple University Press, 2009.
Cooper, Annabel, Robin Law, Jane Malthus, and Pamela Wood. “Rooms of Their Own: Public Toilets and Gendered Citizens in a New Zealand City, 1860-1940.” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 7, no. 4 (2000): 417–33.
Ginsburg, Rebecca. “‘Don’t Tell, Dear". The Material Culture of Tampons and Napkins.” Journal of Material Culture 1, no. 3 (1996): 365–75.
Kitchin, Rob, and Robin Law. “The Socio-Spatial Construction of (In)Accessible Public Toilets.” Urban Studies 38, no. 2 (February 1, 2001): 287–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/00420980124395.
Longhurst, Robyn. “Men’s Bodies and Bathrooms.” In Bodies: Exploring Fluid Boundaries. Routledge, 2001.
Molotch, Harvey. Toilet : Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing. New York: New York University Press, 2010.
That last one, i found a very similar open source version. It's just so interesting to me that women have been using "she pee" or stand-to-pee like devices since the Victorian era. https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/19/penner.php
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I was going to make a post about the return of the “Urinary Leash” and the history of the women who fought for Women’s facilities the FIRST time, and I still might, just to delve into the individual women’s stories a bit more. In the meantime, here’s a wonderful article I found during my cursory look around on the topic.
I’ve tried to find more about the author, Claudia Elphick, who was an undergrad student at the time of writing this, to see if she’s made a stance on the current single sex spaces issue. I don’t have any social media though so my search has only turned up other articles she’s written.
It says she is a grad student, so there probably isn't too much by her, but she might have an account on academia or researchnet.
Oh, I do have a snapshot of the article from 2020! Lol... i thought i'd seen that before. Here are a few articles/books from my zotero. I hosted a reading group that we spent a session on toilet rooms, so i read and added a bunch on them when i was researching it. I remember some of them being really great. One of my mentors, she had a bunch of students researching toilets in the global south and period poverty. It was so awesome seeing the field work presentations of her students. This was still in the 2010s... so while these titles are about gender, they are not full blow trans nonsense. One of the edited books i wrote a chapter for, has some of it. It's pretty depressing.
Anthony, Kathryn H., and Meghan Dufresne. “Potty Priviledging in Perspective: Gender and Family Issues in Toilet Design.” In Ladies and Gents: Public Toilets and Gender, edited by Olga Gershenson and Barbara Penner, 48–61. Temple University Press, 2009.
Cooper, Annabel, Robin Law, Jane Malthus, and Pamela Wood. “Rooms of Their Own: Public Toilets and Gendered Citizens in a New Zealand City, 1860-1940.” Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 7, no. 4 (2000): 417–33.
Ginsburg, Rebecca. “‘Don’t Tell, Dear". The Material Culture of Tampons and Napkins.” Journal of Material Culture 1, no. 3 (1996): 365–75.
Historic UK. “The History of Women’s Public Toilets in Britain.” Accessed August 1, 2020. https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/History-of-Womens-Public-Toilets-in-Britain/.
Kitchin, Rob, and Robin Law. “The Socio-Spatial Construction of (In)Accessible Public Toilets.” Urban Studies 38, no. 2 (February 1, 2001): 287–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/00420980124395.
Longhurst, Robyn. “Men’s Bodies and Bathrooms.” In Bodies: Exploring Fluid Boundaries. Routledge, 2001.
Molotch, Harvey. Toilet : Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing. New York: New York University Press, 2010.
Penner, Barbara. “Researching Female Public Toilets: Gendered Spaces, Disciplinary Limits” 6 (2005): 19.
Thank you, I will definitely be using these links as I look into it!
That last one, i found a very similar open source version. It's just so interesting to me that women have been using "she pee" or stand-to-pee like devices since the Victorian era. https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/19/penner.php
Thank you for this, I've been searching for an article about this but hadn't been able to find anything good.