Dirty Laundry: Public Hygiene and Public Space in Nineteenth-Century Paris
abstract: In nineteenth-century France, in rural areas, women washed laundry in the nearest streams or in the sea and hung the linens where they could, on lavender bushes, rocks and grass fields, where it had a quaint, if not artistic quality. In villages, laundresses washed linens in fountains, or...
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| Format: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.9432 |