Foul bodies [electronic resource] : cleanliness in early America / Kathleen M. Brown.

By: Brown, Kathleen M, 1960-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Society and the sexes in the modern worldPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009Description: xiv, 450 p. : illSubject(s): Hygiene -- United States -- History -- 18th century | Hygiene -- United States -- History -- 19th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 613/.40973 LOC classification: RA780 | .B76 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Caring for the early modern body -- Skin -- Corruption -- Empire's new clothes -- Gentility -- Virtue -- Reimagining sickness and health -- Healing housework -- Redemption -- Laborers -- Immersion -- Mission.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 369-435) and index.

Caring for the early modern body -- Skin -- Corruption -- Empire's new clothes -- Gentility -- Virtue -- Reimagining sickness and health -- Healing housework -- Redemption -- Laborers -- Immersion -- Mission.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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