Bryant Simon is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of History and the academic chair of the honors program at Temple University. He is the author most recently of The Hamlet Fire: The Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives, as well as Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks. He is a regular guest on the History Channel and a contributor to outlets like the New York Daily News, Washington Post, and Philadelphia Inquirer. Simon splits his time between Philadelphia and the Jersey Shore.

• Introduction. Bodies, Maps, and Inequality1. At Home, in Private2. Building an Infrastructure of Privacy3. Misbehaving4. Killers and Closings5. Jim Crow: Ratcheting Up Inequality6. Paying for Inequality7. Outsourcing Everything8. Protests and Backlashes9. The Business of Reopening Public BathroomsEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

“Earlier in American history, businesses and other spaces prided themselves on state-of-the-art public restrooms. Through comprehensive research, historian Simon convinces us that this began to change as people became increasingly wary of who was using these shared toilets: LGBTQ people, unhoused people, and, after the civil rights movement, BIPOC communities.”

Bryant Simon is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of History and the academic chair of the honors program at Temple University. He is the author most recently of The Hamlet Fire: The Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives, as well as Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks. He is a regular guest on the History Channel and a contributor to outlets like the New York Daily News, Washington Post, and Philadelphia Inquirer. Simon splits his time between Philadelphia and the Jersey Shore.

• Introduction. Bodies, Maps, and Inequality1. At Home, in Private2. Building an Infrastructure of Privacy3. Misbehaving4. Killers and Closings5. Jim Crow: Ratcheting Up Inequality6. Paying for Inequality7. Outsourcing Everything8. Protests and Backlashes9. The Business of Reopening Public BathroomsEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

“Earlier in American history, businesses and other spaces prided themselves on state-of-the-art public restrooms. Through comprehensive research, historian Simon convinces us that this began to change as people became increasingly wary of who was using these shared toilets: LGBTQ people, unhoused people, and, after the civil rights movement, BIPOC communities.”

Bryant Simon is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of History and the academic chair of the honors program at Temple University. He is the author most recently of The Hamlet Fire: The Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives, as well as Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks. He is a regular guest on the History Channel and a contributor to outlets like the New York Daily News, Washington Post, and Philadelphia Inquirer. Simon splits his time between Philadelphia and the Jersey Shore.

• Introduction. Bodies, Maps, and Inequality1. At Home, in Private2. Building an Infrastructure of Privacy3. Misbehaving4. Killers and Closings5. Jim Crow: Ratcheting Up Inequality6. Paying for Inequality7. Outsourcing Everything8. Protests and Backlashes9. The Business of Reopening Public BathroomsEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

“Earlier in American history, businesses and other spaces prided themselves on state-of-the-art public restrooms. Through comprehensive research, historian Simon convinces us that this began to change as people became increasingly wary of who was using these shared toilets: LGBTQ people, unhoused people, and, after the civil rights movement, BIPOC communities.”