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Author Lazakis, Nat, author.

Title Body odor and biopolitics : characterizing smell in neoliberal America / Nat Lazakis.

Publication Info. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary "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 can result in spatial segregation and termination from employment yet goes unchallenged by social justice movements. Drawing on research in disability and biopolitics, this book examines how ableist rhetoric legitimizes treating strong-smelling people as defective individuals rather than a marginalized group, elevates mainstream society into arbiters of odor, and drives sales of hygiene products for making bodies acceptable."-- Provided by publisher
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Subject Body odor -- Social aspects -- United States.
Body odor.
Social aspects.
United States.
Hygiene -- United States.
Biopolitics -- United States.
Biopolitics.
Hygiene.
e-books.
Other Form: Print version: 147668328X 9781476683287 (OCoLC)1198892612
ISBN 9781476642772 (electronic book)
147664277X (electronic book)
147668328X
9781476683287