GUSN-242357
xiv, 450 p. : ill. ; 25 cm., Brown provides an intimate view of cleanliness practices and how such forces as urbanization, immigration, market conditions, and concerns about social mobility influenced them. Broad in historical scope and imaginative in its insights, this book expands the topic of cleanliness to encompass much larger issues, including religion, health, gender, class, and race relations.
Hygiene History 18th century.
Hygiene History 19th century.
Hygiene history
Cultural Evolution
History, 17th Century
History, 18th Century
History, 19th Century
Human Body
Reinlichkeit.
Kèorperpflege.
Hygiene.
Brown, Kathleen M., 1960-
Caring for the early modern body -- Skin -- Corruption -- Empire's new clothes -- Gentility -- Virtue -- Reimagining sickness and health -- Healing housework -- Redemption -- Laborers -- Immersion -- Mission.
New Haven : Yale University Press
Society and the sexes in the modern world
Society and the sexes in the modern world.
xiv, 450 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Brown provides an intimate view of cleanliness practices and how such forces as urbanization, immigration, market conditions, and concerns about social mobility influenced them. Broad in historical scope and imaginative in its insights, this book expands the topic of cleanliness to encompass much larger issues, including religion, health, gender, class, and race relations.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-435) and index.
9780300106183 (cloth : alk. paper)
0300106181 (cloth : alk. paper)
Stacks RA780.B76 2009
United States
United States.
USA.
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