Bedroom : an intimate history / Michelle Perrot ; translated by Lauren Elken.

By:

Perrot, Michelle [author.]

Contributor(s):

Elken, Lauren [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (ix, 371 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780300169539
0300169531

Uniform titles:

Histoire de chambres. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Bedroom.DDC classification:

392 23

LOC classification:

GT3000.5.B43 P4713 2018eb

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Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Translator's Note; Chamber Music; The King's Bedroom; Rooms for Sleeping; A Room of One's Own; The Children's Room; The Women's Room; Hotel Rooms; Workers' Rooms; Sickbeds and Deathbeds; No Exit; Fugitive Bedrooms; "Going Outside . . ."; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Summary: An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through today The winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives--the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the bedroom from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans to today, examining its myriad forms and functions, from royal king's chamber to child's sleeping quarters to lovers' trysting place to monk's cell. The history of women, so eager for a room of their own, and that of prisons, where the principal cause of suffering is the lack of privacy, is interwoven with a reflection on secrecy, walls, the night and its mysteries. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including architectural and design treatises, private journals, novels, memoirs, and correspondences, Perrot's engaging book follows the many roads that lead to the bedroom--birth, sex, illness, death--in its endeavor to expose the most intimate, nocturnal side of human history.

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An erudite and highly enjoyable exploration of the most intriguing of personal spaces, from Greek and Roman antiquity through today The winner of France's prestigious Prix Femina Essai (2009), this imaginative and captivating book explores the many dimensions of the room in which we spend so much of our lives--the bedroom. Eminent cultural historian Michelle Perrot traces the evolution of the bedroom from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans to today, examining its myriad forms and functions, from royal king's chamber to child's sleeping quarters to lovers' trysting place to monk's cell. The history of women, so eager for a room of their own, and that of prisons, where the principal cause of suffering is the lack of privacy, is interwoven with a reflection on secrecy, walls, the night and its mysteries. Drawing from a wide range of sources, including architectural and design treatises, private journals, novels, memoirs, and correspondences, Perrot's engaging book follows the many roads that lead to the bedroom--birth, sex, illness, death--in its endeavor to expose the most intimate, nocturnal side of human history.

In English.

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