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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Clavis
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"I take a bath. I wash myself with my washcloth, and Mom washes my hair. I play some more, and then I wrap my soft, warm towel around me! Next, I put on my pajamas. I drink my bottle of milk and read my book. I go to sleep with my sweet teddy bear!"--