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- Title
Der Furz im England des 17. Jahrhunderts. Soziale Peinlichkeit und Körperkontrolle?
- Authors
Thomas, Keith
- Abstract
The article discusses social and medical discourses about flatulence in 17th-century England. Relying on sources such as diaries, satires, and advice publications, the author seeks to show how the propriety or impropriety of farting depended on specific contexts and circumstances, including social status and class imagery, standards of and concerns about public manners and morals, and gender stereotypes and cultural expectations of masculinity and femininity. The author considers these questions in relation to the notion of the civilizing process, as introduced by sociologist Norbert Elias.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; FLATULENCE; CIVILIZING process; MANNERS &; customs -- History; SOCIAL norms; CLASS imagery; GENDER stereotypes; SOCIAL history; TWENTY-first century; 17TH century medical history; ENGLISH civilization; SEVENTEENTH century; MANNERS &; customs
- Publication
Historische Anthropologie, 2012, Vol 20, Issue 2, p200
- ISSN
0942-8704
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7788/ha.2012.20.2.200