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 wastes today. The focus is on the historical development o…
Inglis (sociology, U. of Aberdeen, UK) explores our present feelings of shame, secrecy, disgust, and guilt surrounding the process of excreta and excretion in this fascinating study on one of our society's most unmentionable topics. The sociological approach is cast in a framewo…
"A Social History of Twentieth-Century Europe offers a systematic overview on major aspects of social life, including population, family and households, social inequalities and mobility, the welfare state, work, consumption and leisure, social cleavages in politics, urbanization…
