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Professor Sheila Cavanagh publishes book on public bathrooms, sexuality, gender and segregation

Professor Sheila Cavanagh publishes book on public bathrooms, sexuality, gender and segregation

Few people consider the public washrooms they use as bastions of segregation, but for York University sexuality studies Professor Sheila Cavanagh, these places are in fact among the last gender segregated public places in western countries. Right: Sheila Cavanagh In her new book Queering Bathrooms: Gender, Sexuality and the Hygienic Imagination, Cavanagh, a queer theorist, […]