Foul Bodies
Cleanliness in Early America
$149.40
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
31 May 2011
Summary
In colonial times, few Americans bathed regularly; by the mid-1800s, a cleanliness “revolution” had begun. Why this change, and what did it signify?
“It is the author’s ability to appreciate and represent the almost tactile circumstantiality of life that makes Foul Bodies so special—and so readable.” —Charles E. Rosenberg, author of Our Present Complaint: American Medicine, Then and Now
“Brown has framed an intriguing new area of research and…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780300171556 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0300171552 |
| Author: | Kathleen M. Brown |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 31 May 2011 |
| Weight: | 517g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 235mm |
| Series: | Society and the Sexes in the Modern World |
Critics Review
”‘Kathleen M. Brown provides an explicit analysis of bodies that revises and complicates our understanding of their cultural impact…. She has written an engaging book that seamlessly leads readers to reconceptualize the ways that even the most personal is undeniably public and political.’ (Sharon Block, American Historical Review) ‘A deeply researched and richly detailed story.’” (David Aikman, The Weekly Standard)”
Kathleen M. Brown
Kathleen M. Brown is professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia. She lives in Merion Station, PA.
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