Anita Cohen-Williams schrieb:
> Believe it or not, Ned, THE PORCELAIN GOD: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE TOILET is
> a serious albeit popular work. The author covers a lot of the questions you
> ask and has a good bibliography as well. If you want, I can send along some
> of these references.
>
i also used "clean and decent" for an essay on baths in roman society (as the
class's token social scientist) for an architecture course - quite a good book -
one of my colleagues was discussing smirky american prudery just yesterday, mr
heite!
geoff carver
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