THE CLEAN BODY

Book ID/图书代码： 08763019C00006

English Summary/英文概要： 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 hygiene was mainly a matter of wearing clean underclothes. By the late twentieth century frequent - often daily - bathing had become the norm and wearing freshly laundered clothing the general practice. Cleanliness, once simply a requirement for good health, became an essential element of beauty. Beneath this transformation lay a sea change in understandings, motives, ideologies, technologies, and practices, all of which shaped popular habits over time. Peter Ward explains that what began as an urban bourgeois phenomenon in the later eighteenth century became a universal condition by the end of the twentieth, touching young and old, rich and poor, city dwellers and country residents alike. Based on a wealth of sources in English, French, German, and Italian, The Clean Body surveys the great hygienic transformation that took place across Europe and North America over the course of four centuries.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我们的祖先多久洗一次澡?他们多久洗一次衣服，换一次衣服?他们对清洁的理解是什么?为什么我们的卫生习惯会随着时间发生如此巨大的变化?简而言之，我们是如何变得如此干净的呢?《洁净的身体》探讨了自17世纪以来西方历史上最基本、最普遍的文化变化之一:个人卫生革命。在路易十四时代，洗澡是罕见的，卫生主要是穿着干净的内衣。到了二十世纪后期，经常洗澡——通常是每天洗澡——已成为一种常态，而穿刚洗过的衣服已成为一种普遍做法。清洁，曾经只是健康的必要条件，现在变成了美的基本要素。这种转变的背后是理解、动机、意识形态、技术和实践的巨大变化，所有这些都随着时间的推移而形成了流行的习惯。彼得•沃德解释说，18世纪后期开始的城市资产阶级现象在20世纪末变成了一种普遍现象，影响着年轻人和老年人、富人和穷人、城市居民和乡村居民。《洁净的身体》以丰富的英语、法语、德语和意大利语为基础，调查了欧洲和北美四个世纪以来发生的巨大卫生变化。（WYL)

Awards/获奖情况：“《洁净的身体》是一部文笔优美的力作，是一本通俗易懂的好书，读起来令人愉悦。彼得•沃德广泛引用四种语言的文献，在丰富的经验细节、理论探索和社会经济数据之间游移自如。”——布莱恩•刘易斯，麦吉尔大学，《维多利亚和爱德华时代伦敦的道德地图:查尔斯•布斯，基督教慈善机构，穷但受人尊敬》的合著者

"The Clean Body is a beautifully written tour de force, a wonderfully accessible book, and a joy to read. Peter Ward draws extensively on the literature in four languages and moves with ease between rich empirical detail, theoretical soundings, and socioeconomic data." Brian Lewis, McGill University and co-editor of The Moral Mapping of Victorian and Edwardian London: Charles Booth, Christian Charity, and the Poor-but-Respectable

“In The Clean Body: A Modern History [WARD] promises to tell the story of the ‘cleanliness revolution,’ offering cleanliness as a lens through which to view a society in transition, whether culturally, technologically, or scientifically.” “Our environmental woes too are the logical conclusion to a history of growing consumption, of things as well as resources. As Ward writes, “Once an element of nature, [water] had become a commodity, an engineered product of the industrial economy, . . . its presence in everyday life taken utterly for granted.”” Literary Review of Canada

"As The Clean Body makes clear, the hygiene revolution was tied in with the rise of consumerism and its concomitant exploitation of natural resources - things that have contributed greatly to our current environmental tipping point." The Montreal Gazette

"A thoughtful and thought-provoking discussion of practices that we would be mistaken to think of as natural or normal. Its study of centuries of hygiene is a prompt for us to reconsider our present-day pursuit of cleanliness." Winnipeg Free Press

"Ward has written a rare thing: a history of the clean body, yes, but also a history of societal expectation,, technological innovation, class, privacy and spare time. This is one of those uncommon works that makes the everyday hardship of the past come to life, while at the same time making the reader critique their own expectations about the world. A masterful work." History Today

"Peter Ward skillfully distills wide-ranging academic research into a coherent and entertaining narrative pageant of Western European and North American concepts about and mechanics of personal cleanliness." Choice

About the Author/作者介绍： 彼得•沃德是英属哥伦比亚大学名誉历史学教授，著有几本关于加拿大社会史和人口健康史的书籍。

Peter Ward is professor emeritus of history at the University of British Columbia and the author of several books on the social history of Canada and the history of population health.

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