LEADER 03399nam 22006374a 450 001 9910780759703321 005 20230721024313.0 010 $a1-282-35207-5 010 $a9786612352072 010 $a0-300-16027-5 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300160277 035 $a(CKB)2470000000000747 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050136 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000296742 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11251140 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000296742 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10327547 035 $a(PQKB)10785076 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420420 035 $a(DE-B1597)486365 035 $a(OCoLC)592756094 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300160277 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420420 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10310920 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235207 035 $a(OCoLC)923593675 035 $a(EXLCZ)992470000000000747 100 $a20080521d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFoul bodies$b[electronic resource] $ecleanliness in early America /$fKathleen M. Brown 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (464 p.) 225 1 $aSociety and the sexes in the modern world 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-10618-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 369-435) and index. 327 $aCaring for the early modern body -- Skin -- Corruption -- Empire's new clothes -- Gentility -- Virtue -- Reimagining sickness and health -- Healing housework -- Redemption -- Laborers -- Immersion -- Mission. 330 $aA nation's standards of private cleanliness reveal much about its ideals of civilization, fears of disease, and expectations for public life, says Kathleen Brown in this unusual cultural history. Starting with the shake-up of European practices that coincided with Atlantic expansion, she traces attitudes toward "dirt" through the mid-nineteenth century, demonstrating that cleanliness-and the lack of it-had moral, religious, and often sexual implications. Brown contends that care of the body is not simply a private matter but an expression of cultural ideals that reflect the fundamental values of a society.The book explores early America's evolving perceptions of cleanliness, along the way analyzing the connections between changing public expectations for appearance and manners, and the backstage work of grooming, laundering, and housecleaning performed by women. Brown provides an intimate view of cleanliness practices and how such forces as urbanization, immigration, market conditions, and concerns about social mobility influenced them. Broad in historical scope and imaginative in its insights, this book expands the topic of cleanliness to encompass much larger issues, including religion, health, gender, class, and race relations. 410 0$aSociety and the sexes in the modern world. 606 $aHygiene$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aHygiene$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aHygiene$xHistory 615 0$aHygiene$xHistory 676 $a613/.40973 700 $aBrown$b Kathleen M.$f1960-$01556032 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780759703321 996 $aFoul bodies$93818425 997 $aUNINA