Janes, Dominic (2007) Spiritual cleansing, priests and prostitutes in early Victorian London. In: Cox, Rosie and Campkin, B. (eds.) Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination. London, UK: I.B. Tauris, pp. 113-122. ISBN 9781845116729.
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Book synopsis: Dirt - and our rituals to eradicate it - are as much a part of our everyday lives as eating, breathing and sleeping. Yet this very fact means that we seldom question what we mean by dirt. What do our attitudes to dirt and cleanliness tell us about ourselves and the societies we live in? This innovative work exposes the interests which underlie everyday conceptions of dirt and reveals how our ideas about it are intimately bound up with issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and the body. Exploring a wide variety of settings - domestic, urban and rural - it reveals how attitudes to dirt and cleanliness become manifest in surprisingly diverse ways, including the rituals of death and burial; architectural design aesthetics; urban infrastructure and regeneration; film symbolism; and consumer attitudes to food.
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| Item Type: | Book Section |
|---|---|
| Additional Information: | Full-text locked pending publisher permission |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Research Centres and Institutes: | Gender and Sexuality, Birkbeck (BiGS), Social Research, Birkbeck Institute for (BISR) |
| Depositing User: | Dominic Janes |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Oct 2011 12:57 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Apr 2025 00:55 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/4245 |
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