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Scholars have only recently discovered that the human body itself has a history. Not only has it been perceived, interpreted, and represented differently in dif

Scholars have only recently discovered that the human body itself has a history. Not only has it been perceived, interpreted, and represented differently in dif

Scholars have only recently discovered that the human body itself has a history. Not only has it been perceived, interpreted, and represented differently in dif

Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature--one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era

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 habi