A Sociological History of Excretory Experience: Defecatory Manners and Toiletry Technologies

by David Inglis

This study illustrates how it was the shifting relationships between the aristocracy, bourgeoisie and working classes over several centuries which were greatly responsible for the ways in which we defecate and view human waste in the 21st century. The focus of the book is on the historical development of these factors in Western Europe over the modern period: the nature of excreta; human body's defectatory capacities; acceptable/unacceptable fashions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773475397
• ISBN13: 9780773475397
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Length: 305 Pages