The Politics of Bathroom Access and Exclusion in the United States

by Sara Chatfield

The past twenty years have seen an explosion of state laws focused on bathroom access, including laws that both restrict and expand the ability of people to access basic needs in public. Through an analysis of several distinct state-level policies that regulate bathrooms along the dimensions of gender and gender roles, gender identity, and disability, the author argues that bathroom access is an important aspect of citizenship, signaling both physical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009539566
• ISBN13: 9781009539562
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages