Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination

Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination
ISBN-10
0857738828
ISBN-13
9780857738820
Series
Dirt
Category
Political Science
Pages
272
Language
English
Published
2012-12-05
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Authors
Rosie Cox, Ben Campkin

Description

Dirt - and our rituals to eradicate it - is as much a part of our everyday lives as eating, breathing and sleeping. Yet this very fact means that we seldom stop to question what we mean by dirt. What do our attitudes to dirt and cleanliness tell us about ourselves and the societies we live in? Exploring a wide variety of settings - domestic, urban, suburban and rural - the contributors expose how our ideas about dirt are intimately bound up with issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and the body. The result is a a rich and challenging work that extends our understanding of historical and contemporary cultural manifestations of dirt and cleanliness.

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