School toilets: Queer, disabled bodies and gendered lessons of embodiment

School toilets: queer, disabled bodies and gendered lessons of embodiment

Author/s: Jen Slater, Charlotte Jones, Lisa Procter

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Publication date: 2016

Summary:

In this paper (published in Gender and Education) we argue that school toilets function as one civilising site [Elias, 1978. The Civilising Process. Oxford: Blackwell] in which children learn that disabled and queer bodies are out of place. This paper is the first to offer queer and crip perspectives on school toilets.