Dec. 28th, 2005

I'm editing a paper that I wrote a year ago (about gender-variant people, gender-neutral bathrooms, and the state in Poland, the Netherlands, and Germany), and the books I used to write it are in Connecticut. Go me. I need to cite something about gender in the Western world constantly being policed. I could go at it the long way, as I do in my lit review, foucault and power, butler and and resistance and violence and performativity, halberstam and mohanty as privilegin certain forms of expression, delany and ingram with cities beign maps of violence, etc etc, but I just need a simple quotation for my intro paragraph, a sort of "Butler says that bathrooms are sites of gender policing, and so I studied a, b, and c in these countries...."

I also need to find a source that shows low-income transwomen of color are the most vulnerable in bathrooms (or are the most vulnerable to harassment in general). I could use the Trans Day of Remembrance stats for the latter if I have to, but I'd prefer a more scholarly thing I could cite and not have to explain--I'm pushing up against the word count pretty tightly.

I'm using Butler, Mohanty, Halberstam, Foucault, Delany, and Ingram. I had been using Nestle, Munt, Braidotti, and probably some others I'm forgetting at this point, but had to remove them when I chopped the paper from 40 pages to its current 22.


So yeah, if anyone could help, I feel this is a simple question but I just can't figure out if any theorist actually says that bathrooms are sites of gender policing, and if so, where. Direct quotations would be especially useful.

Thanks so much. I'm going to bed with some tylenol; I can't shake this headache/fever/whatever it is.

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