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Was it even something an individual could be said to possess? What could be counted as sexuality?<br><br><br><br><br><br>Tomorrows Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America provides a rich new conceptual language to describe the movements of sex in the period before it solidified into the sexuality we know, or think we know. Taking up authors whose places in the American history of sexuality range from the canonical to the improbablefrom Whitman, Melville, Thoreau, and James to Dickinson, Sarah Orne Jewett, Harriet Jacobs, Frederick Douglass, and Mormon founder Joseph SmithPeter Coviello delineates the varied forms sex could take in the lead-up to its captivation by the codings of modern sexuality. While telling the story of nineteenth-century American sexuality, he considers what might have been lostin the ascension of these new taxonomies of sex: all the extravagant, untimely ways of imagining the domain of sex that, under the modern regime of sexuality, have sunken into muteness or illegibility. Taking queer theorizations of temporality in challenging new directions, Tomorrows Parties assembles an archive of broken-off, uncreated futuresfutures that would not come to be. 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Finding the right door, waiting in line, and using the facilities are often undertaken with trepidation. Dont touch anything. Try not to smell. Avoid eye contact. And for men, dont look down or let your eyes stray. Even washing ones hands are tied to anxieties of disgust and humiliation. And yet other things also happen in these spaces: babies are changed, conversations are had, make-up is applied, and notes are scrawled for posterity.<br><br>Beyond these private issues, there are also real public concerns: problems of public access, ecological waste, andin many parts of the worldsanitation crises. At public events, why are women constantly waiting in long lines but not men? Where do the homeless go when cities decide to close public sites? Should bathrooms become standardized to accommodate the disabled? Is it possible to create a unisex bathroom for transgendered people?<br><br>In Toilet, noted sociologist Harvey Molotch and Laura Noren bring together twelve essays by urbanists, historians and cultural analysts (among others) to shed light on the public restroom. These noted scholars offer an assessment of our historical and contemporary practices, showing us the intricate mechanisms through which even the physical design of restroomsthe configurations of stalls, the number of urinals, the placement of sinks, and the continuing segregation of womens and mens bathroomsreflect and sustain our cultural attitudes towards gender, class, and disability. 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