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Perrot, Philippe. Fashioning the Bourgeoisie: A History of Clothing in the Nineteenth Century. Trans. Richard Bienvenu. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Porter, Roy, ed. Medical History of Waters and Spas. London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1990.

Prost, Antoine. “Public and Private Spheres in France,” in A History of Private Life, V: Riddles of Identity in Modern Times. Ed. Antoine Prost and Gerard Vincent. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991, pp. 1–144.

Regnier-Bohler, Danielle. “Imagining the Self,” in A History of Private Life II: Revelations of the Medieval World. Ed. Georges Duby. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1988, pp. 311–94.

Reynolds, Reginald. Cleanliness and Godliness. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1946.

Riis, Jacob A. The Battle with the Slum. Montclair, NJ: Patterson Smith, 1969.

________. How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York: Hill and Wang, 1968.

Roche, Daniel. The Culture of Clothing: Dress and Fashion in the Ancien Régime. Trans. Jean Birrell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes, vol. 5, The Collected Writings of Rousseau. Ed. Christopher Kelly, Roger D. Masters and Peter G. Stillman. Trans. Christopher Kelly. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1995.

________. Emile. Trans. Barbara Foxley. London: J.M. Dent, 1993.

Rubinstein, David, Ed. Victorian Homes. London: David and Charles, 1974.

Salisbury, Joyce E. Church Fathers, Independent Virgins. London: Verso, 1991.

Salkin, Allen. “Germs Never Sleep.” The New York Times, 5 Nov. 2006 (http://nytimes.com).

Sarti, Raffaella. Europe at Home: Family and Material Culture 1500–1800. Trans. Allan Cameron. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002.

Schama, Simon. The Embarrassment of Riches: An Interpretation of Dutch Culture in the Golden Age. New York: Vintage, 1997.

Schaub, Bianca, Roger Lauener and Erika von Mutius. “The Many Faces of the Hygiene Hypothesis.” Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 117 (2006): 969–77.

Shaw, Bernard. “Pygmalion,” in Collected Plays with Their Prefaces, vol. IV. London: The Bodley Head, 1970–74.

Singman, Jeffrey. Daily Life in Medieval Europe. Westport, CN: Greenwood Press, 1999.

Sivulka ,Juliann. Soap, Sex, and Cigarettes: A Cultural History of American Advertising. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1998.

—. Stronger Than Dirt: A Cultural History of Advertising Personal Hygiene in America, 1875–1940. Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2001.

Stouck, Mary–-Ann. Medieval Saints. New York: Broadview, 1999.

Strasser, Susan. Never Done: A History of American Housework. New York: Pantheon, 1982.

Thorndike, Lynn. “Sanitation, Baths, and Street–-Cleaning in the Middle Ages and Renaissance,” Speculum, 1924, pp. 193–203.

Urbain, Jean–-Didier. At the Beach. Trans. Catherine Porter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

Vigarello, Georges. Concepts of Cleanliness: Changing Attitudes in France since the Middle Ages. Trans. Jean Birrell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Vinikas, Vincent. Soft Soap, Hard Sell: American Hygiene in an Age of Advertisement. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1992.

Wilkie, Jacqueline S. “A Submerged Sensuality: Technology and Perceptions of Bathing.” Journal of Social History 19 (Summer 1986): 649–64.

Williams, Marilyn Thornton. Washing “The Great Unwashed”: Public Baths in Urban America, 1840–1920. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1991.

Williamson, Jefferson. The American Hotel: An Anecdotal History. New York: Knopf, 1930.

Wright, Lawrence. Clean and Decent: The History of the Bath and Loo and of Sundry Habits, Fashions and Accessories of the Toilet, Principally in Great Britain, France and America. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980.

Yegül, Fikret. Baths and Bathing in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,