Cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Materialities and Metaphors of Dirt and Cleanliness - Ben Campkin and Rosie Cox -- Section 1: Home: Domestic Dirt and Cleaning -- Introduction - Rosie Cox -- 1. Linguistic Leakiness or Really Dirty? Dirt in Social Theory - Carol Wolkowitz -- 2. Domestic Workers and Pollution in Brazil - Livia Barbosa -- 3. The Visible and the Invisible: (De)regulation in Contemporary Cleaning Practices - Lydia Martens -- 4. Bring Home the Dead: Purity and Filth in Contemporary Funeral Homes - Kyro Selket -- Section 2: City and Suburb: Urban Dirt and Cleansing -- Introduction - Ben Campkin -- 5. Degradation and Regeneration: Theories of Dirt and the Contemporary City - Ben Campkin -- 6. From the Dirty City to the Spoiled Suburb - Paul Wyatt -- 7. Dangers Lurking Everywhere: The Sex Offender as Pollution - Pamela K. Gilbert -- 8. Hygiene Aesthetics on London's Gay Scene: The Stigma of AIDS - Johan Andersson -- 9. Spirtual Cleansing: Priests and Prostitutes in Early Victorian London - Dominic Janes -- 10. Mapping Sewer Spaces in mid-Victorian London - Paul Dobraszczyk -- 11. The Cinematic Sewer - David L. Pike -- Section 3: Country: Constructing Rural Dirt -- Introduction - Rosie Cox -- 12. Dirt and Development: Alternative Modernities in Thailand - Alyson Brody -- 13. Dirty Foods, Healthy Communities? - Gareth Enticott -- 14. Dirty Vegetables: Connecting Consumers to the Growing of their Food - Lewis Holloway, Laura Venn, Rosie Cox, Moya Kneafsey, Elizabeth Dowler, Helena Tuomainen -- 15. Dirty Cows: Perceptions of BSE/vCJD - Bruce A. Scholten -- Contributors -- Notes -- References -- Index.