Originally rooted in stereotypes about race and class, the modern norm of bodily odorlessness emerged amid 19th and early 20-century developments in urban sanitation, labor relations and product marketing. Today, discrimination against strong-smelling people includes spatial segregation and termination from employment yet goes unchallenged by social justice movements.
This book examines how neoliberal rhetoric legitimizes treating strong-smelling people as defective individuals rather than a marginalized group, elevates authority figures into arbiters of odor, and drives sales of hygiene products for making bodies acceptable.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"...meticulously researched, referencing an impressive range of scholarship and existing research on body odor, embodiment, social justice, neoliberalism, and disability studies."-Russell Meeuf, author, Rebellious Bodies: Stardom, Citizenship, and the New Body Politics
Sprache
Verlagsort
Zielgruppe
Für Beruf und Forschung
Interest Age: From 18 years
Produkt-Hinweis
Illustrationen
appendices, notes, bibliography, index
Maße
Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 13 mm
Gewicht
ISBN-13
978-1-4766-8328-7 (9781476683287)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Klassifikation
Nat Lazakis is an independent researcher who studies how late capitalist institutions affect experiences of embodiment and place. His writing has appeared in the Journal of Radical Librarianship and in Ethics and the Environment. He lives in Durham, North Carolina.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
One-The Neoliberal History of Body Odor
Two-Policing Rented Bodies: Odor in the Workplace
Three-Gated Communities of Knowledge: Public Libraries' Body Odor Bans and the Spatial Politics of Purity
Four-Elusive Allies
Five-Is Green Just a Color? Environmentalism and Olfactory Discrimination
Six-Medicalization and Its Discontents
Conclusion
Appendix I: Survey of Olfactory Discrimination in the Workplace
Appendix II: U.S. Public Libraries with Body Odor Bans
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
