Abstract
This Article challenges the common assumption that legally mandated sex-separation of public restrooms is a benign recognition of natural anatomical differences between men and women. Relying on legal history, gender history, and architectural theory, my central thesis is that, contrary to common intuitions, there was nothing benign or gender neutral about the social and historical origins of the first laws adopted at the end of the nineteenth century that mandated such separation.
Recommended Citation
Terry S. Kogan,
Sex-Separation in Public Restrooms: Law, Architecture, and Gender,
14
Mich. J. Gender & L.
1
(2007).
Available at:
https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjgl/vol14/iss1/1
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