“For an investigation of how we evacuate and what we do with the results, this is a remarkably clean book. . . . Where the body and technology meet, this immensely useful little volume points out, is exactly where we have to confront our most basic self-image, but we always do so through an elaborate system that plugs that sense of our body into a network of implements and biases that are socially constructed.” 

Architectural Review

“A wide-ranging examination of bathroom fixtures, finish materials, and spaces.… Focuses on design but also discusses cultural influences, technology, and political forces.”
 
“Penner finds as much meaning in art about bathrooms… as in bathrooms themselves, and she uses a wide variety of sources deftly. The book is handsomely produced and briskly written, with a generous number of high-quality color photographs.”

Alison K. Hoagland, Michigan Technological University (emerita) | Winterthur Portfolio