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The Clean Body - A Modern History (Hardcover)
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The Clean Body - A Modern History (Hardcover)
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How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their
clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to
be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time?
In short, how have we come to be so clean? The Clean Body explores
one of the most fundamental and pervasive cultural changes in
Western history since the seventeenth century: the personal hygiene
revolution. In the age of Louis XIV bathing was rare and hygiene
was mainly a matter of wearing clean underclothes. By the late
twentieth century frequent - often daily - bathing had become the
norm and wearing freshly laundered clothing the general practice.
Cleanliness, once simply a requirement for good health, became an
essential element of beauty. Beneath this transformation lay a sea
change in understandings, motives, ideologies, technologies, and
practices, all of which shaped popular habits over time. Peter Ward
explains that what began as an urban bourgeois phenomenon in the
later eighteenth century became a universal condition by the end of
the twentieth, touching young and old, rich and poor, city dwellers
and country residents alike. Based on a wealth of sources in
English, French, German, and Italian, The Clean Body surveys the
great hygienic transformation that took place across Europe and
North America over the course of four centuries.
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