Public toilet facilities in an urban setting are an essential infrastructure that guarantees every
citizen's right to sanitation in the public realm. This paper contends on the fragility of urban …

This paper is part of an extended study to assess the needs of women for public toilets (PT)
and sanitation facilities in the city of Warangal, Telangana, India. A quantitative dip-stick …

Despite the heightened emphasis on the sanitation agenda of the country, driven by both
international and national development goals, there is little scholarly work to base our …

While insufficient sanitation facilities often get represented in statistics and are reported in
the literature on urban infrastructure planning and contested urban spaces, what is often left …

Access to improved toilets can enhance physical and mental security among women.
Therefore, it becomes critical to incorporate and understand their decisions on household …

Urban political ecology shows how fractured power dynamics mutually shape urban built
environments, formulating everyday negotiations around accessing needed sanitation …

While the topic of women and water, sanitation and hygiene is a widely accepted concern
among academics and activists, it continues to be an issue in developing countries with …

This paper describes how lack of access to adequate sanitation facilities affects the lives of
adolescent girls in urban poor India. It draws specifically on the experiences of four …

This chapter uses the results of a two-and-a-half-year action research project entitled, Action
Research Project on Women's Rights and Access to Water and Sanitation in Asian Cities, to …

This book examines sanitation and toilet access across rural India, focusing on
psychological, socio-cultural, infrastructural, and normative barriers to the initiative of …