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In colonial times few Americans bathed regularly; by the mid-1800s, a cleanliness “revolution” had begun. Why this change, and what did it signify?
A nation’s standards of private cleanliness reveal much about its ideals of civilization, fears of disease, and expectations for public life, says Kathleen Brown in this unusual cultural history. Starting with the shake-up of European practices that coincided with Atlantic expansion, she traces attitudes toward “dirt”...
About the Author
Kathleen M. Brown is professor of history, 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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"'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)"
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0300171552
- ISBN 13 9780300171556
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages464
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