Toiletry Time
Defecation, Temporal Strategies and the Dilemmas of Modernity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4356345 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Inglis (0000-0002-7654-072X, Institute of Sociology), Mary Holmes (0000-0001-5217-713X, University of Aberdeen) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 223-245 |
| Publication date | 2000-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Time & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-463X • E-ISSN: 1461-7463 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0961463x00009002005 |
| OpenAlex | W1970988540 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 15 |
The rhythms of human bodies are profoundly implicated with the time regimes that are dominant in different societies. This article seeks to explicate the relations between the temporal dispositions of one aspect of the body, its defecatory capacities, and the chronological and spatial categorizations of modernity. This latter configuration is understood variously as being characterized by: the social relations of the `civilizing process' (Elias); capitalist economic relations (Marx); instrumental rationality (Adorno and Horkheimer); and patriarchy (feminism). Focusing on each of these aspects of the modern allows us to chart historically the rise of a series of temporal regulations over acts of defecation. However, following the position of Sigmund Freud, we trace out one of the key dilemmas of modernity: while the times when defecation occurs have come under increasing levels of guidance and administration, the human body and its faecal capacities still continue to some degree to operate according to rhythms other than those imposed upon them, thus occasionally effecting a disorderly `return of the repressed' in the realm of systematized time
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Modernity · Patriarchy · Political science · Rationality · Realm · Sociology · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Sociology and Norbert Elias · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
“Everyone does it but no one really wants to talk about it”
Planning Kampala
Taming the shame
Corporeality, Equality, and Education
Public toilet provision for people with disabilities
The Gender Politics of Human Waste and Human‐as‐Waste
Urine trouble
The writing is on the wall
Like clockwork? (Re)imagining rhythms and routines when living with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
The civilizing brand
Sleep as in/dispensable deceleration for acceleration
Dirt and denigration
I have to know where I can go
Lifting the lid
The Body as Weapon
Fecal Matters
The labouring classes in early industrial England, 1750-1850
The politics and poetics of transgression
Theorizing patriarchy
Civilization and Its Dis(Contents)
The dialectic of enlightenment
A Serious Issue for the Body Politic
A Life Apart
Privacy
II. Josiah Wedgwood and Factory Discipline
The origin of negative dialectics
The Division of Labour in Society
"On the "Genesis of Modern Management
Child Training and Personality
The Scatalogic Rites of All Nations
| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2025 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |