Chasing dirt : the American pursuit of cleanliness / Suellen Hoy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoy, Suellen M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hygiene--United States--History.

Hygiene.

Sanitation--United States--History.

Sanitation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 'Chasing Dirt', Suellen Hoy provides a colourful history of the remarkable transformation from "dreadfully dirty" to "cleaner than clean," ranging from the pre-Civil War era to the 1950's, when American's obsession with cleanliness reached its peak.

Contents:

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: Cleanliness First; CHAPTER ONE: Dreadfully Dirty; John Wesley, Benjamin Franklin, and Reality; The Filthy Farmstead; Towns and Cities, Dirty-and Dangerous; The Domestic Woman, Agent of Cleanliness; Preceptress of Reform: Catharine Beecher; Cleanliness, Health, and Virtue: Graham and Alcott; Cleanliness as Public Policy: Griscom and Shattuck; Sanitary Reform on the Eve of War; CHAPTER TWO: A Wider War; Florence Nightingale's Good Example; The First Women Volunteers; Creating the Sanitary Commission; Olmsted Starts Inspecting; ""A Woman's War""

The South and the Freed people Bringing Cleanliness Home from the War; CHAPTER THREE: City Cleansing; The Sanitary Lessons of the War; Epidemics and the Urgency of Water and Sewers; George Waring and the Sewering of America; Women as Municipal Housekeepers; Ada Sweet and a Cleaner Chicago; Waring Cleans Up New York City; Caroline Bartlett Crane Tests the Waring Model in Kalamazoo; Public and Private Cleanliness in the Progressive Era; CHAPTER FOUR: The American Way; Becoming American; Booker T. Washington-Toothbrushes and More; To Ellis Island and America

Good Neighbors, Good Teachers: The Settlement Workers From Miasmas to Microbes; Metropolitan's Health Messengers; Americanizing the Immigrant Home; African-Americans, Cleanliness, and the Great Migration; CHAPTER FIVE: Persuading the Masses; Education and Business Team Up; From Settlement House to School; Philanthropy Changes the South; Soap and Water for Modern Health Crusaders; Americanizing the Workplace; The Business of Cleanliness; CHAPTER SIX: Whiter Than White-and a Glimmer of Green; Cleanliness Peaks; Housewives as Targets; Bathrooms in the Country; The War Changed Everything

Looking for a ""Cleaner Clean""A Glimmer of Green; POSTSCRIPT: Are We as Clean as We Used to Be?; NOTES; INDEX;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-243) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-4294-0016-1

9786610529278

1-280-52927-X

0-19-535485-0

OCLC:

922952689