Further Bathroom Reading: The Bibliography from Poop Culture
While a handful of brave writers and researchers have over the years swallowed their gag reflex and plunged headfirst into the field of poop, there is overall very little thought on the subject of human waste and contemporary culture. Which isn't surprising -- few people want to contaminate their good name with such association. In the course of three years of research and writing, from book proposal to final draft, the author relied on (and is grateful for) the following sources:
2006 Water and Sewer Tap Fee Schedule. City and Community of Arvada, 2005.
Bakhtin, M. M. Rabelais and His World. 1st Midland Book Ed. ed. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1984.
Barney, Richard A. "Filthy Thoughts, or Cultural Criticism and the Ordure of Things." Genre 27 (1994): 275-294.
Beder, Sharon. "From Sewage Farms to Septic Tanks: Trials and Tribulations in Sydney." Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 79 (1993): 72-95.
Bell, Michael Mayerfield. "Deep Fecology: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Call of Nature." Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 5 (1994): 65-84.
The Beneficial Uses of Biosolids/Sludge. Ithaca, New York: Cornell Waste Management Institute, 1996.
Boeree, C. George. "Sigmund Freud." Shippensburg University. 12 Feb. 2006.
Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction a Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard UP, 1984.
Bourke, John Gregory, and Louis P. Kaplan. The Portable Scatalog: Excerpts From Scatalogic Rites of All Nations, a Dissertation Upon the Employment of Excrementitious Remedial Agents in Religion, Therapeutics, Divination, Witchcraft, Love-Philters, Etc., in All Parts of the Globe. 1st ed. New York: W. Morrow, 1994.
Camlot, Jason. "The Victorian Postmodern." Postmodern Culture 13 (2002).
Canning, Susan M. "The Ordure of Anarchy: Scatological Signs of Self and Society in the Art of James Ensor." Art Journal Fall 1993.
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Cortez, Marisol. Is Abjection Necessary? UC Davis. 2004.
Cortez, Marisol. Reading Shit: From Textuality to Materiliality (Working Title). UC Davis.
Cortez, Marisol. Reading Shit: The Ecological Politics of the Scatological in Contemporary U.S. Culture. UC Davis.
Cortez, Marisol. Waste Treatment: Narratives of Accumulation in Locke and Marx. UC Davis. 2003.
Crockett, Jonathan. Assessing the Feasibility of Alternative Sanitation Systems. Enviro 2000 Conference. Sydney AWA, 2000.
Crockett, Jonathan, Sarah Oliver, Clair Millar, Michael Jefferson, Buzz Burrows, and Kim Jacques. Feasibility Study for a Dry Composting Toilet and Urine Separation Demonstration Project. Enviro 04 Conference and Exhibition. Sydney, 2004.
D'amato, Eric. "Mystery of Disgust." Psychology Today Jan.-Feb. 1998.
Dimmer, Christine, Brian Martin, Noeline Reeves, and Frances Sullivan. "Squatting for the Prevention of Haemorrhoids?" Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients 159 (1996): 66-70.
Ditmann, Melissa. "Eww, Gross! Psychologist Paul Rozin Offered Insights Into the Science of Disgust." Monitor on Psychology 34 (2003).
Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Dundes, Alan. Life is Like a Chicken Coop Ladder: A Study of German National Character through Folklore. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1989.
Dutton, Michael, Sanjay Seth, and Leela Gandhi. "Plumbing the Depths: Toilets, Transparency and Modernity." Postcolonial Studies 5 (2002): 137-142.
Eddy, Natalie. "India Pays Homage to the Toilet." Small Flows Quarterly 5 (2004): 30-33.
Esty, Joshua D. "Excremental Postcolonialism." Contemporary Literature 40 (1999): 22-59.
Friedin, B.D., and Helene K. Johnson. "Treatment of a Retarded Child's Faeces Smearing and Coprophagic Behavior." J. Ment. Defic. Res. 23 (1979): 55-61.
Freud, Sigmund. Civilization and Its Discontents. New York: Dover Publications, 1994.
Gandy, Matthew. "The Paris Sewers and the Rationalization of Urban Space." Transactions -- Institute of British Geographers 24 (1999): 23-44.
Geest, Sjaak Van Der. "The Night-Soil Collector: Bucket Latrines in Ghana." Postcolonial Studies 5 (2002): 197-206.
Gerling, Daniel. Kitsch: Theory and Art. U of Texas, Austin.
Gershon, Michael D. The Second Brain: The Scientific Basis of Gut Instinct and a Groundbreaking New Understanding of Nervous Disorders of the Stomach and Intestine. 1st ed. New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1998.
Ghaziuddin, Neera, and Carrick McDonald. "A Clinical Study of Adult Coprophagics." British Journal of Psychology 147 (1985): 312-313.
Goodland, Robert, and Abby Rockefeller. "What is Environmental Sustainability in Sanitation?" UNEP-IETC Newsletter Summer 1996.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. 1st ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.
Gray, Harold Farnsworth. "Sewerage in Ancient and Medieval Times." Sewage Works Journal 12 (1940): 939-946.
Greed, Clara. "Public Toilets in the 24 Hour City." 2003 World Toilet Summit.
Hahn, Tim. "Much Ado about Nothing." Erie Times-News 28 May 2004.
Haidt, Jonathan, Paul Rozin, Clark McCauley, and Sumio Imada. "Body, Psyche, and Culture: The Relationship Between Disgust and Morality." Psychology and Developing Societies 9 (1997): 107-131.
Jenkins, Joseph C. The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure. 2nd ed., Completely Rev., Expanded and Updated. Grove City, PA: Jenkins Pub., 1999.
Johnson, Steven. Ghost Map the Story of London's Deadliest Epidemic-- and How It Changed the Way We Think About Disease, Cities, Science, and the Modern World. New York, N.Y: Penguin Group, 2006.
Marston, Wendy. "On Germ Patrol, At the Kitchen Sink." New York Times 23 Feb. 1999, sec. Health.
Mason, Thomas. "Managing Protest Behaviour: From Coercion to Compassion." Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 7 (2000): 269-275.
Mason, Thomas. "Scatolia: Psychosis to Protest." Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing 3 (1996): 303-311.
May, Margaret Tallmadge, and Galen. Galen on the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1968. 240-242.
Mayer, Peter W., David M. Lewis, and William B. Deoreo. Seattle Home Water Conservation Study: the Impacts of High Efficiency Plumbing Fixture Retrofits in Single-Family Homes. Seattle Public Utilities/the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Boulder: Aquacraft, Inc. Water Engineering and Management, 2000.
McKenzie, John. "Bums, Poos and Wees: Carnivalesque Spaces in the Picture Books of Early Childhood. or, Has Literature Gone to the Dogs?" English Teaching: Practice and Critique 4 (2005): 81-94.
Middlemist, R. Dennis, and Eric S. Knowles. "Personal Space Invasions in the Lavatory: Suggestive Evidence for Arousal." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 33 (1976): 541-546.
Miller, John. "The Fig Leaf Was Brown: Classifications of Scatological Art." Art Journal Fall (1993).
Nelson, Emily. "The Tissue that Tanked: Marketing Miscues Hobble a Much-Hyped Toilet Paper Product." The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition Sept. 2002.
Persels, Jeff, and Russell Ganim. Fecal Matters in Early Modern Literature and Art: Studies in Scatology. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004.
Persels, Jeff. "'Straitened in the Bowels', or Concerning the Rabelaisian Trope of Defecation." Etudes Rabelaisiennes XXXI (1996).
Phillips, Grania T., and Jane E. Smith. "The Behavioural Treatment of Faeces Retention: An Expanded Case Study." Behavioural Psychology 14 (1986): 124-136.
Pieper, Werner. Das Scheiss Buch. Berlin: Der Grüne Zweig 123, 1988.
Pietras, Jamie. "Everyone Poops. But Not Everyone Gets Arrested for It." New York Press, Volume 17, no. 46.
Rushdy, Ashraf H. A. "A New Emetics of Interpretation: Swift, His Critics and the Alimentary Canal." Mosiac 24 (1991): 1-32.
Sabbath, Dan, and Mandel Hall. The First Taboo. New York: Urizen Books, 1977.
Sakamoto, Saiko, and Atsuhiro Katsumata. The Next Generation Toilet and Its Maintenance. Japan Toilet Association Maintenance Study Institute.
Schülting, Sabine. "'Pray, Did You Ever Hear of Pears' Soap?': Soap, Dirt, and the Commodity in Victorian England." Journal for the Study of British Cultures 8 (2001): 137-156.
Silk, Gerald. "Myths and Meanings in Manzoni's Merda D'Artista." Art Journal Fall (1993).
Silver, Maury, Rosaria Conte, Maria Miceli, and Isabella Poggi. "Humiliation: Feeling, Social Control and the Construction of Identity." Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 16 (1986): 269-283.
Smith, Paul. The Book of Nasty Legends. Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1983.
Smith, Steve, and Eric Sticken. "Aging Low Flows." Plumbing & Mechanical 27 Feb. 2001.
Spinrad, Paul. The RE/Search Guide to Bodily Fluids. San Francisco, CA: RE/Search Publications, 1994.