Dirt

ISBN: 9781780764177 出版年：2012 页码：273 Bloomsbury Publishing

Dirt - and our rituals to eradicate it - is of our everyday lives as eating, breathing and sleeping. Yet this very fact means that we seldom stop to question what we mean by dirattitudes 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 of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and the body. The resuand challenging work that extends our understanding of historical and contemporary cultural manifestations of dirt and cleanliness.