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- Book Title
- Foul Bodies : Cleanliness in Early America Hardcover Kathleen M.
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300106181
ISBN-13
9780300106183
eBay Product ID (ePID)
52042332
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Foul Bodies : Cleanliness in Early America
Publication Year
2009
Subject
Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Healthy Living, Customs & Traditions
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Health & Fitness, Social Science
Series
Society and the Sexes in the Modern World Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
29.9 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Brown has framed an intriguing new area of research and gathered a surprisingly rich source of textual evidence. Marvelous."�Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of A Midwife''s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, "Brown has framed an intriguing new area of research and gathered a surprisingly rich source of textual evidence. Marvelous."-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, "Brown has framed an intriguing new area of research and gathered a surprisingly rich source of textual evidence. Marvelous."-Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, author of A Midwife''s Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812, "With path breaking and provocative precision, Foul Bodies analyzes the historical body. Brown shows how trans-Atlantic migrations and gendered body work co-determine race and class hierarchies and define civility, cultural values and citizenship. This text enriches previous scholarship immeasurably."-Susan E. Cayleff, San Diego State University, �Foul Bodies offers readers the highest reward of historical scholarship: the ability to see their own actions in new and wiser ways. Under Kathleen Brown''s intense scrutiny things as routine as bathing become complex and consequential historical productions.��Mary P. Ryan, Johns Hopkins University, �With path breaking and provocative precision, Foul Bodies analyzes the historical body. Brown shows how trans-Atlantic migrations and gendered body work co-determine race and class hierarchies and define civility, cultural values and citizenship. This text enriches previous scholarship immeasurably.��Susan E. Cayleff, San Diego State University, "Brown must be congratulated for offering historians the first sustained consideration of early American preoccupations with ideas and practices of cleanliness. . . . A big and important contribution. . . . Brown''s is a sophisticated and convincing analysis. . . . The research, analysis, and writing are wonderfully evocative. One gets a profound sense, not just of the constant fight against filth waged by early Americans, bit of this fight''s powerful moral, economic, and political implications. . . . Foul Bodies should do more than any previous work to draw historians of early America into this important area of study."-Jonathan Eacott, Journal of World History, "Foul Bodies offers readers the highest reward of historical scholarship: the ability to see their own actions in new and wiser ways. Under Kathleen Brown''s intense scrutiny things as routine as bathing become complex and consequential historical productions."-Mary P. Ryan, Johns Hopkins University, "A wonderful book and an astute mixture of unobtrusive theory and dogged research. Brown links ideology and value, the negotiation of gender, class and race, with the body as lived and performed. But 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 , " Foul Bodies offers readers the highest reward of historical scholarship: the ability to see their own actions in new and wiser ways. Under Kathleen Brown's intense scrutiny things as routine as bathing become complex and consequential historical productions."-Mary P. Ryan, Johns Hopkins University, " Foul Bodies offers readers the highest reward of historical scholarship: the ability to see their own actions in new and wiser ways.Under Kathleen Brown's intense scrutiny things as routine as bathing become complex and consequential historical productions."-Mary P. Ryan, Johns Hopkins University, "A wonderful book and an astute mixture of unobtrusive theory and dogged research. Brown links ideology and value, the negotiation of gender, class and race, with the body as lived and performed. But 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, "A wonderful book and an astute mixture of unobtrusive theory and dogged research. Brown links ideology and value, the negotiation of gender, class and race, with the body as lived and performed. But 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, " Foul Bodies is provocative in the best way, raising troubling questions about how we do history and how we live our lives."-Jan Ellen Lewis, William and Mary Quarterly, " Foul Bodies offers readers the highest reward of historical scholarship: the ability to see their own actions in new and wiser ways. Under Kathleen Brown''s intense scrutiny things as routine as bathing become complex and consequential historical productions."-Mary P. Ryan, Johns Hopkins University, "Brown must be congratulated for offering historians the first sustained consideration of early American preoccupations with ideas and practices of cleanliness. . . . A big and important contribution. . . . Brown's is a sophisticated and convincing analysis. . . . The research, analysis, and writing are wonderfully evocative. One gets a profound sense, not just of the constant fight against filth waged by early Americans, bit of this fight's powerful moral, economic, and political implications. . . . Foul Bodies should do more than any previous work to draw historians of early America into this important area of study."-Jonathan Eacott, Journal of World History, "A fascinating, ambitious, and creative book. . . . Beyond the compelling, gritty details that help illustrate its sweeping argument, Foul Bodies suggests several promising new directions for historians to explore further, particularly at the intersections of material culture, technology, sexuality, class, gender, race, and the environment."-Ann M. Little, William and Mary Quarterly, "A wonderful book and an astute mixture of unobtrusive theory and dogged research. Brown links ideology and value, the negotiation of gender, class and race, with the body as lived and performed. But 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
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
613.40973
Synopsis
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 through the mid-nineteenth century, demonstrating that cleanliness and the lack of it had moral, religious, and often sexual implications. Brown 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.The book explores early America s evolving perceptions of cleanliness, along the way analyzing the connections between changing public expectations for appearance and manners, and the backstage work of grooming, laundering, and housecleaning performed by women. 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.", 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" through the mid-nineteenth century, demonstrating that cleanliness-and the lack of it-had moral, religious, and often sexual implications. Brown 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. The book explores early America's evolving perceptions of cleanliness, along the way analyzing the connections between changing public expectations for appearance and manners, and the backstage work of grooming, laundering, and housecleaning performed by women. 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.
LC Classification Number
RA780.B76 2009
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