Not Even Past
New Perspectives on American History
KATHLEEN BROWN, in conversation with Kathy Peiss, discusses her book Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America.
Kathleen Brown is a historian of gender and race in early America and the Atlantic World. A professor of history, she teaches courses on comparative slavery, colonial America, women in American history, gender and sex in early America, and cultures and contact in the Atlantic World. She is author of Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and Power in Colonial Virginia and Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America.
Kathy Peiss, the Roy F. and Jeannette P. Nichols Professor of American History, is chair of the history department. She has written on the history of working women, leisure and popular culture, the beauty industry, and working-class and interracial sexuality. Her books include Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York, Hope in a Jar: The Making of America's Beauty Culture and Major Problems in the History of American Sexuality.
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