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Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America (Society and the Sexes in the Modern Worl)
Foul Bodies Cleanliness in Early America - Society and the Sexes in the Modern Worl
Author: Professor Kathleen M. Brown
A nation’s standards of private cleanliness reveal much about its ideals of civilization, fears of disease, and expectations for public life, says Kathleen Brown in this unusual cultural history. Starting with the shake-up of European practices that coincided with Atlantic expansion, she traces attitudes toward “dirt” through t...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300106183
ISBN-10: 0300106181
Publication Date: 1/27/2009
Pages: 464
Edition: illustrated edition
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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