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Performative queer identities: masculinities and public bathroom usage

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This article critically examines the interface of gender, sex and identity within the context of bathroom facilities in a South African gay club. The public features and behaviors are contrasted with the bathrooms' private and abstract zones in terms of sexualized spaces and activities. The club's bathrooms function as spatial and physical discourses in which gender stability - with reference to masculine or feminine bodily inscriptions - is questioned. The bathrooms are understood as sites of parody practices in which dissonance between sex, gender and identity is made manifest.

Source: Human Science Research Council SA

DOI: 10.14749/30269704

Author: Human Sciences Research Council

Language: English

Topic: Gender and Feminist Studies

Subfield: Gender Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Gender equality

Open Access status: green

Funder: Human Sciences Research Council

OpenAlex ID: W7084609056

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