Roger Kimball reports on a call for papers on "the gendered construction of public toilets":
This collection will work from the premise that public toilets, far from being banal or simply functional, are highly charged spaces, shaped by notions of propriety, hygiene and the binary gender division... [T]hey provide a fertile ground for critical work interrogating how conventional assumptions about the body, sexuality, privacy, and technology can be formed in public space and inscribed through design.
UPDATE: on the other hand, this one sounds like a fun time.
Posted by Dr. Frank at May 31, 2005 03:48 PM | TrackBackHow will he tell the real submissions from the ones that are just trying to take the piss out of him?
Posted by: Wes at May 31, 2005 05:05 PMThere are biases at every level of this "research."
Posted by: josh at May 31, 2005 05:36 PM
uggggh...i'm not sure if that first comment was a terrible pun or actually a question.
if i'm right you win the bad pun button.
i say again..uggh.
Posted by: just me at May 31, 2005 07:14 PMAw, shucks, I'm getting all flushed.
Posted by: Wes at May 31, 2005 08:02 PM
I can see there will be no end to this...
...I mean my mind reels a little faster at the thought that the people at the "more fun" link
actually get paid for that stuff.
Where do I sign up? I can hand them off my poetry book from years ago(otherwise it will be burned at some point)and maybe get college credit for it. I used to write the worst stuff which is much pretty much in the vain of what they're proposing.
Posted by: just me at May 31, 2005 09:48 PM