Download or read book Foul Bodies written by Kathleen M. Brown and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In colonial times few Americans bathed regularly; by the mid-1800s, a cleanliness “revolution” had begun. Why this change, and what did it signify? 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.

Download or read book Shaping Femininity written by Sarah Bendall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly Commended, Society for Renaissance Studies Biennial Book Prize 2022 In sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments called bodies and farthingales, existed in various extremes in Western Europe and beyond, in the form of stays, corsets, hoop petticoats and crinolines, right up until the twentieth century. With a nuanced approach that incorporates a stunning array of visual and written sources and drawing on transdisciplinary methodologies, Shaping Femininity explores the relationship between material culture and femininity by examining the lives of a wide range of women, from queens to courtiers, farmer's wives and servants, uncovering their lost voices and experiences. It reorients discussions about female foundation garments in English and wider European history, arguing that these objects of material culture began to shape and define changing notions of the feminine bodily ideal, social status, sexuality and modesty in the early modern period, influencing enduring Western notions of femininity. Beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout, Shaping Femininity is the first large-scale exploration of the materiality, production, consumption and meanings of women's foundation garments in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. It offers a fascinating insight into dress and fashion in the early modern period, and offers much of value to all those interested in the history of early modern women and gender, material culture and consumption, and the history of the body, as well as curators and reconstructors.

Download or read book Mind and Body written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Leaves of Healing written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hydropathy for the People written by William Horsell and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Romances and Narratives written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The All father written by Philip Hankinson Newnham and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Essay Concerning Human Understanding with Thoughts on the Conduct of the Understanding written by John Locke and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Grain World written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Queensland Agricultural Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book VILE BODIES written by Evelyn Waugh and published by Alien Ebooks. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vile Bodies is a 1930 novel satirising the bright young things: decadent young London society after World War I. The title appears in a comment made by the novel’s narrator in reference to the characters’ party-driven lifestyle: “All that succession and repetition of massed humanity... Those vile bodies...”

Download or read book Human Nature in Its Fourfold State written by Thomas Boston and published by . This book was released on 1799 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report written by Louisiana. Board of Health and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laws and ordinances relating to health and sanitation of the city of New Orleans: 1906-1907.

Download or read book An Enquiry Into the Nature of the Human Soul written by Andrew Baxter and published by . This book was released on 1733 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Works of Daniel Defoe Due preparations for the plague as well for soul as body written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Finding Charity s Folk written by Jessica Millward and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finding Charity’s Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and numerous manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica Millward skillfully brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new means of using biography as a historical genre. Millward opens with a striking discussion about how researching the life of a single enslaved woman, Charity Folks, transforms our understanding of slavery and freedom in Revolutionary America. For African American women such as Folks, freedom, like enslavement, was tied to a bondwoman’s reproductive capacities. Their offspring were used to perpetuate the slave economy. Finding loopholes in the law meant that enslaved women could give birth to and raise free children. For Millward, Folks demonstrates the fluidity of the boundaries between slavery and freedom, which was due largely to the gendered space occupied by enslaved women. The gendering of freedom influenced notions of liberty, equality, and race in what became the new nation and had profound implications for African American women’s future interactions with the state.

Download or read book The Works written by Johann Rudolph Glauber and published by . This book was released on 1689 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: