Faculty Research & Creative Activity
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Author ORCID Identifier
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4359-5871
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2006
Abstract
This article studies literary works that feature gender performance scenes that take place in women's restrooms. The ways in which female characters in Laurie Halse Anderson's Speak, J.D. Salinger's Franny & Zooey, and Clare Luce Boothe's The Women utilize the private space of the women's bathroom.
Recommended Citation
Ames, Melissa R., "Memoirs of a Bathroom Stall: The Women’s Lavatory as Crying Room, Confessional, and Sanctuary" (2006). Faculty Research & Creative Activity. 98.
https://thekeep.eiu.edu/eng_fac/98
https://works.bepress.com/melissa_ames/4/