![]() Brown is a historian of gender and race in early America and the Atlantic World. Educated at Wesleyan and the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Dr. Brown is also the author of Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race, and power in Colonial Virginia. It is also the winner of the 2009 Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Book Award, given by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. Levine Award, presented by the Organization of American Historians. Professor Brown will discuss this unusual cultural history that traces attitudes toward dirt through the mid-nineteenth century, demonstrating that cleanliness–and the lack of it–had moral, religious, and often sexual implications.įoul Bodies, published by Yale University Press, is the winner of the 2010 Lawrence W. This author event is co-sponsored by Radnor Historical Society. Brown, will talk about her award-winning book, Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America (2009). ![]() ![]() On Wednesday, October 27, at 7:30pm, University of Pennsylvania Professor of History, Kathleen M. ![]()
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