Radio 4 'Making HIstory' A history and background to the first public loos for women.

[R0wantrees]

I've just listened to the segment in 'Making History', its a significant aspect and relevent today.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b9ws9x

"Iszi Lawrence is in Fitzrovia with writer, broadcaster and Victorian historian Kathryn Hughes to find out why the lack of public toilets meant women were so inconvenienced in the Victorian and Edwardian period. What lay behind the then-accepted notion that women shouldn't "go" in public?"

Placemark to listen late.

Interesting! Also marking to listen later.

They have an interesting show scheduled for 9am on Thursday too.
It is called Sweet Reason and it is focussing on whether notions of a patriarchy are useful for explaining ‘gender’ imbalances in society.

There's been a great deal on Radio 4 which is relevent to many of the wider issues in recent months.

Yes, I've taught this stuff - in the current debates about who can/should or can't use public lavatories, we forget that public loos were essential for women to take their place in the public sphere.