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Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Privates in Public : The Space of the Urinal
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'This essay is a preliminary analysis of...men's toilets...that architectural design influences bodily habits, and vice versa;...This is an essay, then, about bodies in space...about the design and effects (both individual and social) of one particular architectural form - the urinal - and about the laws, both formal and semiotic, that govern that space.'

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    y separately published work icon Imagining Australian Space : Cultural Studies and Spatial Inquiry Ruth Barcan (editor), Ian Buchanan (editor), Nedlands : University of Western Australia. Centre for Studies in Australian Literature , 1999 Z936655 1999 anthology criticism essay

    This collection of cultural studies essays looks at 'the way we construct and use space in our everyday material, psychic and social behaviours.' (Source: publisher's website.)

    Nedlands : University of Western Australia. Centre for Studies in Australian Literature , 1999
    pg. 75-92
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