The dirt on clean : an unsanitized history
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GT2845 .A84 2007
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358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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R2675490

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"Originally published in 2007 by Alfred A. Knopf, Canada"--Title page verso
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-333) and index.
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What could be more routine than taking up soap and water and washing yourself? And yet cleanliness, or the lack of it, is intimately connected to ideas as large as spirituality and sexuality, and historical events that include plagues, the Civil War, and the discovery of germs. For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, scraping the body, and a final application of oil. For the aristocratic Frenchman in the seventeenth century, it meant changing your shirt once a day and using perfume to cover your own aroma as well as others', but never immersing yourself in water. Now we live in a deodorized world where sales of hand sanitizers and wipes are skyrocketing. Ashenburg's tour of history's baths and bathrooms reveals much about our changing and most intimate selves--what we desire, what we ignore, and what we fear.--From publisher description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Ashenburg, K. (2007). The dirt on clean: an unsanitized history (1st American ed.). North Point Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ashenburg, Katherine. 2007. The Dirt On Clean: An Unsanitized History. New York: North Point Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Ashenburg, Katherine. The Dirt On Clean: An Unsanitized History New York: North Point Press, 2007.

Harvard Citation (style guide)

Ashenburg, K. (2007). The dirt on clean: an unsanitized history. 1st American ed. New York: North Point Press.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Ashenburg, Katherine. The Dirt On Clean: An Unsanitized History 1st American ed., North Point Press, 2007.

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