Kathleen M. Brown - Foul Bodies Cleanliness and the Making of the Modern Body

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Kathleen M. Brown

Foul Bodies
Cleanliness and the Making of the Modern Body

English · Hardback

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Contends that care of the body is not simply a private matter but an expression of cultural ideals that reflect the fundamental values of a society. This book provides an intimate view of cleanliness practices and how such forces as urbanization, immigration, market conditions, and concerns about social mobility influenced them.

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Authors Kathleen M. Brown
Publisher Yale University Press Ltd
 
Content Book
Product form Hardback
Publication date 03.02.2009
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories
 
EAN 9780300106183
ISBN 978-0-300-10618-3
Pages 448
 
Series Society and the Sexes in the Modern World
 

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