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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Society and the sexes in the modern worldPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.Description: xiv, 450 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 613/.40973 22
LOC classification:
  • RA780 .B76 2009eb
Online resources:
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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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