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Author Perrot, Michelle, author.

Title Bedroom : an intimate history / Michelle Perrot ; translated by Lauren Elken
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 371 pages)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject Bedrooms -- History
Personal space -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
Bedrooms
Personal space
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Elken, Lauren, editor
ISBN 9780300169539
0300169531
Other Titles Histoire de chambres. English