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v Contents Acknowledgments vii 1 Introduction: Learning from the Loo 1 Harvey Molotch Rest Stop: Russell Sage Foundation 21 Part I: Living in the Loo 2 Dirty Spaces: Separation, Concealment, and Shame in the Public Toilet 25 Ruth Barcan Rest Stop: Erotics at Harvard 43 Bryan Reynolds 3 Which Way to Look? Exploring Latrine Use in the Roman World 47 Zena Kamash Rest Stop: Judgmental Urinals 64 4 Potty Training: Nonhuman Inspection in Public Washrooms 65 Irus Braverman Rest Stop: Times Square Control 87 Part II: Who Gets to Go 5 Only Dogs Are Free to Pee: New York Cabbies’ Search for Civility 93 Laura Norén Rest Stop: Trucker Bomb 115 vi Contents 6 Creating a Nonsexist Restroom 117 Clara Greed Rest Stop: A Woman’s Restroom Reflection 142 7 Sex Separation: The Cure-All for Victorian Social Anxiety 145 Terry S. Kogan Rest Stop: MIT’s Infinite Corridor, Now Shorter for Women 165 8 Pissing without Pity: Disability, Gender, and the Public Toilet 167 David Serlin Rest Stop: Flirting with the Boundary 186 Part III: Building in the Future 9 The Restroom Revolution: Unisex Toilets and Campus Politics 191 Olga Gershenson Rest Stop: Thai Students Get Transsexual Toilet 208 Jonathan Head 10 Why Not Abolish Laws of Urinary Segregation? 211 Mary Anne Case Rest Stop: Menstrual Dilemma 226 11 Entangled with a User: Inside Bathrooms with 229 Alexander Kira and Peter Greenaway Barbara Penner Rest Stop: Toilet Bloom @ Bryant Park 253 12 On Not Making History: What NYU Did with the 255 Toilet and What It Means for the World Harvey Molotch Notes 273 About the Contributors 303 Index 307 ...

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