Rooms of Their Own: Public toilets and gendered citizens in a New Zealand city, 1860‐1940

Cooper, Annabel; Law, Robin; Malthus, Jane; Wood, Pamela

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“…They argue that the construction of disabled toilets and lack of provision limits the way in which disabled people can participate in public life. They usefully introduce Cooper, Law, Malthus, and Wood’s (2000) notion of ‘the bladder’s leash’ – the idea that disabled people’s participation is constrained and contingent upon their ability to ‘hold it in’ or not (Kitchin & Law, 2001). They explain that the exclusion of disabled people from public participation via toilet exclusion is formed through the engineering and design of toilets in the first place.…”

Section: Disabled Toilets In Disability Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lifting the lid: Disabled toilets as sites of belonging and embodied citizenship

Wiseman

2019

The Sociological Review

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This article explores the complex relationship between citizenship, bodies and toileting through the experiences of disabled people. By examining the toiletscapes that disabled people must navigate, the impact that inaccessible toilets have on self and personhood and the hidden inequalities produced through these spaces, we can come to understand disabled people’s sense of (non)belonging. At the centre of this article is a focus on the socio-political dualisms that locate disabled people at the margins of everyday citizenship. Through a feminist phenomenological analysis the toilet and toileting bring to the fore how (non)belonging is felt. Toilet(ing), then, problematises the nature of so-called ‘private’ and ‘public’ spaces and by engaging bodily waste we come to understand citizenship through dirt.

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Section: Disabled Toilets In Disability Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lifting the lid: Disabled toilets as sites of belonging and embodied citizenship

Wiseman

2019

The Sociological Review

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“…Men directly exercised most political and economic power in public life, but the successful campaign for women's suffrage which deployed concepts of temperance and morality posed a challenge to their dominance. The conditions under which women were accepted as legitimate users of public space in Dunedin shifted over time; Cooper, Law, Malthus and Wood (2000) show how these trends can be read off from the debates and practices surrounding the provision of public toilets in the city. Over the decades, the recognition of men and women as gendered citizens changed, and new dimensions of masculinity and femininity came to the fore.…”

Section: Setting the Context: The Streets Of Dunedinmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…The resulting detailed social history database and set of publications has built up a rich description of the distinctive character and local history of the area (Cooper, Law, Malthus and Wood 2000;Olssen 1995;Olssen et al 1999; also see , http://www. otago.ac.nz/nzpg/caversham/index.html .…”

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Gender and daily mobility in a New Zealand city, 1920–1960

Law

2002

Soc. Cultural Geog.

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Although it is widely accepted that transport-like other social practices-is gendered, the concept of gender used in transport research is often one-dimensional, with the focus on gendered variations in behaviour rather than on gendered meaning and identities. In this paper, I develop a more complex and multi-stranded way of approaching the issue of gender and transport (or rather, daily mobility). A case study of a neighbourhood in the New Zealand city of Dunedin in the early decades of last century is presented to explore how the practices of daily mobility constituted gender. A three-part concept of gender is developed as a basis for analysis: gender as a pattern of social relations, a cultural system of meaning and a component of personal identity. This is then used to analyse a collection of sixty oral histories. T he period 1920-1960 is particularly interesting; in these decades extensive and widely used public transport systems (notably electric trams) shared urban streets with bicycles and pedestrians, and the emerging private modes of motorcycle and motor car. As new transport technologies were taken up, they offered the opportunity for new social practices to be formed around their use, for cultural meanings to be assigned to the technologies and for embodied individual subjectivities to be constructed. I argue that we can usefully interpret the shifting patterns of transport use through the lens of gender, and that we can come to understand the process by which gender is constructed by attention to everyday trip-making and presence on the street.

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“…The research showed how 'shifting concepts of public decency with regard to bodily function' changed as women came to be more visible and sanctioned users of public spaces. 128 A spin-off was a more general statement about accessibility and public toilets in modern urban settings. 129 Law's other particular contribution to the Caversham project related to changing transport technologies from horse drawn vehicle to private motor vehicles.…”

Section: The Caversham Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Historical Geography in New Zealand, 1987–2007

Roche

2008

History Compass

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This article reviews historical geography in New Zealand over the period 1987 to 2007. It indicates that research in the 1980s and 1990s has filled some of the gaps identified by earlier reviewers while more recent research has used new approaches to pose new questions such as those surrounding post colonialism. A feature of historical geography research over the last 15 years has been a number of collaborative projects, most notably a national historical atlas. The future for historical geography in New Zealand arguably calls for a stronger re‐engagement with human geography.

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Rooms of Their Own: Public toilets and gendered citizens in a New Zealand city, 1860‐1940

Cited by 31 publications

References 8 publications

Lifting the lid: Disabled toilets as sites of belonging and embodied citizenship

Lifting the lid: Disabled toilets as sites of belonging and embodied citizenship

Gender and daily mobility in a New Zealand city, 1920–1960

Historical Geography in New Zealand, 1987–2007

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