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Foul bodies : cleanliness in early America / Kathleen M. Brown.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) RA780 .B76 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Kathleen M., 1960-
- Series:
- Society and the sexes in the modern world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hygiene--United States--History--18th century.
- Hygiene.
- Hygiene--United States--History--19th century.
- Hygiene--history.
- United States.
- Cultural Evolution.
- History, 17th Century.
- History, 18th Century.
- History, 19th Century.
- Human Body.
- Medical Subjects:
- Hygiene--history.
- United States.
- Cultural Evolution.
- History, 17th Century.
- History, 18th Century.
- History, 19th Century.
- Human Body.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 450 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2009]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Atlantic Crossings
- ONE. Caring for the Early Modern Body
- TWO. Skin
- THREE. Corruption
- pt. II Genteel Bodies
- FOUR. Empire's New Clothes
- FIVE. Gentility
- SIX. Virtue
- pt. III Transforming Body Work
- SEVEN. Reimagining Sickness and Health
- EIGHT. Healing Housework
- NINE. Redemption
- TEN. Laborers
- pt. IV Crusades
- ELEVEN. Immersion
- TWELVE. Mission.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-435) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780300106183
- 0300106181
- 9780300171556
- 0300171552
- OCLC:
- 150336396
- Publisher Number:
- 99986730711
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