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Description for Foul Bodies
Paperback. States that a nation's standards of private cleanliness reveal much about its ideals of civilization, fears of disease, and expectations for public life. Starting with the shake-up of European practices that coincided with Atlantic expansion, this title traces attitudes toward 'dirt' through the mid-nineteenth century. Series: Society and the Sexes in the Modern World. Num Pages: 464 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; MBNH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 28. Weight in Grams: 654.
In colonial times few Americans bathed regularly; by the mid-1800s, a cleanliness “revolution” had begun. Why this change, and what did it signify?
"It is the author's ability to appreciate and represent the almost tactile circumstantiality of life that makes Foul Bodies so special—and so readable."—Charles E. Rosenberg, author of Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now
"Brown has framed an intriguing new area of research and gathered a surprisingly rich source of textual evidence. Marvelous."—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
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In colonial times few Americans bathed regularly; by the mid-1800s, a cleanliness “revolution” had begun. Why this change, and what did it signify?
"It is the author's ability to appreciate and represent the almost tactile circumstantiality of life that makes Foul Bodies so special—and so readable."—Charles E. Rosenberg, author of Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now
"Brown has framed an intriguing new area of research and gathered a surprisingly rich source of textual evidence. Marvelous."—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812
A ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Series
Society and the Sexes in the Modern World
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780300171556
SKU
V9780300171556
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Ref
99-40
About Kathleen M. Brown
Kathleen M. Brown is professor of history, University of Pennsylvania, and author of Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. She lives in Merion Station, PA.
Reviews for Foul Bodies
"'Kathleen M. Brown provides an explicit analysis of bodies that revises and complicates our understanding of their cultural impact.... She has written an engaging book that seamlessly leads readers to reconceptualize the ways that even the most personal is undeniably public and political.' (Sharon Block, American Historical Review) 'A deeply researched and richly detailed story.'" (David Aikman, The Weekly Standard)" ... Read more