Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity

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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition
Language: english
ISBN: 0199297797
Paperback: 416 pages
Data: May 4, 2007
Format: PDF
Description: Smith, a British historian and honorary fellow at the Centre for History in Public Health at the London School of Hygiene, traces the origins of our modern standards of cleanliness by reaching back to the ancient Mesopotamians to look at the kind of grooming we now call pampering: baths, manicures and hairstyling. She argues that the impulse toward maintaining a cleanly outward appearance, which plays a central role in sexual attraction, is opposed by a psychological or religious desire for inner purity linked to Christian asceticism, which disdained physical adornment. Thanks to the development of an ethos of sanitary need in the Victorian era, which linked cleanliness to purity, personal hygiene has now reached the stage of general consensus, with newly emerging middle classes around the world eager to buy hygienic and cosmetic products to meet Western standards of appearance. Smith's chronicle is sprinkled with interesting details and draws on a broad cultural canvas, but the tone is academic; general readers will prefer to await a more popular history. 25 illus.

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